Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars

May 16, 2018

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. The books included are on a wide variety of subjects and present many different points of view. The opinions expressed in these books do not necessarily reflect the views of the editorial board of JBHE. Here are the latest selections.

Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo by Zora Neale Hurston (Amistad Press)	Black/Africana Communication Theory edited by Kehbuma Langmia (Palgrave Macmillan)	Called to Sankofa: Leading In, Through and Beyond Disaster ― A Narrative Account of African Americans Leading Education in Post-Katrina New Orleans edited by Tammie M. Causey-Konate and Margaret Montgomery-Richard (Peter Lang International)
Constructing the Dynamo of Dixie: Race, Urban Planning, and Cosmopolitanism in Chattanooga, Tennessee by Courtney Elizabeth Knapp (University of North Carolina Press)	Empowering Men of Color on Campus: Building Student Community in Higher Education by Derrick R. Brooms et al. (Rutgers University Press)	Liberia, South Carolina: An African American Appalachian Community by John M. Coggeshall (University of North Carolina Press)
Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement by Janet Dewart Bell (New Press)	Moving Toward Integration: The Past and Future of Fair Housing by Richard H. Sander et al. (Harvard University Press)	Revolutionary STEM Education: Critical-Reality Pedagogy and Social Justice in STEM for Black Males by Jeremiah J. Sims (Peter Lang International)
Strategic Sisterhood: The National Council of Negro Women in the Black Freedom Struggle by Rebecca Tuuri (University of North Carolina Press)	The Color Line and the Assembly Line: Managing Race in the Ford Empire by Elizabeth Esch (University of California Press)	The Frederick Douglass Papers: Series Three: Correspondence, Volume 2: 1853-1865 edited by John R. Kaufman-McKivigan (Yale University Press)
The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism by Howard Bryant (Beacon Press)	Transformative Schooling: Towards Racial Equity in Education by Vajra M. Watson (Routledge)	Truth Without Tears: African American Women Deans Share Lessons in Leadership by Carolyn R. Hodges and Olga M. Welch (Harvard Education Press)