Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African American Scholars

May 16, 2012

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections. Click on any of the titles for more information or to purchase through Amazon.com.

Almost Free: A Story About Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia by Eva Sheppard Wolf (University of Georgia Press)	Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence by Alan Gilbert (University of Chicago Press)	Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner: Boxing in the Shadow of the Global Color Line by Theresa Runstedtler (University of California Press)
Plessy v. Ferguson: Race and Inequality in Jim Crow America by Williamjames Hull Hoffer (University Press of Kansas)	Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You: Busting Myths About Human Nature by Agustin Fuentes (University of California Press)	Slavery by Any Other Name: African Life Under Company Rule in Colonial Mozambique by Eric Allina (University of Virginia Press)
Straightening the Bell Curve: How Stereotypes About Black Masculinity Drive Research on Race and Intelligence by Constance Hilliard (Potomac Books)	The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire by Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus (Harvard University Press)	The New Black Politician: Cory Booker, Newark, and Post-Racial America by Andra Gillespie (New York University Press)