Recent Books That May Be 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. Click on any of the titles for more information or to purchase through Amazon.com.

Alone Atop the Hill: The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press edited by Carol McCabe Booker (University of Georgia Press)	Black America in the Shadow of the Sixties: Notes on the Civil Rights Movement, Neoliberalism, and Politics by Clarence Lang (University of Michigan Press)	Black Woman Reformer: Ida B. Wells, Lynching, and Transatlantic Activism by Sarah Silkey (University of Georgia Press)
Competing Visions of Empire: Labor, Slavery, and the Origins of the British Atlantic Empire by Abigail L. Swingen (Yale University Press)	Eye on the Struggle: Ethel Payne, the First Lady of the Black Press by James McGrath Morris (Amistad)	Reach: 40 Black Men Speak on Living, Leading, and Succeeding edited by Ben Jealous and Trabian Shorters (Atria Books)
Slaves of the State: Black Incarceration From the Chain Gang to the Penitentiary by Dennis Childs (University of Minnesota Press)	The Myth of Black Anti-Intellectualism: A True Psychology of African American Students by Kevin O. Cokley (Praeger)	To Write in the Light of Freedom: The Newspapers of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Schools edited by William Sturkey and Jon N. Hale (University Press of Mississippi)