Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars

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.

African American Girls and the Construction of Identity: Class, Race, and Gender by Sheila Walker (Lexington Books)	African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic by Herman L. Bennett (University of Pennsylvania Press)	Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop by Vicki Tobak (Clarkson Potter)
Delivered by Midwives: African American Midwifery in the Twentieth-Century South by Jenny M. Luke (University Press of Mississippi)	Esteban: The African Slave Who Explored America by Dennis Herrick (University of New Mexico Press)	Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight (Simon & Schuster)
Race and Cultural Practice in Popular Culture edited by Domino Renee Perez and Rachel Gonzalez-Martin (Rutgers University Press)	The African-American Community and Its Need for Venture Capital by Jason Fields (AuthorHouse)	Warring Over Valor: How Race and Gender Shaped American Military Heroism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries edited by Simon Wendt (Rutgers University Press)