Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African-American Scholars
The JBHE Weekly Bulletin regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.
• American Cinema and the Southern Imaginary edited by Deborah Barker and Kathryn McKee (University of Georgia Press)
• American Pietas: Visions of Race, Death, and the Maternal by Ruby C. Tapia (University of Minnesota Press)
• Black on Earth: African American Ecoliterary Traditions by Kimberly N. Ruffin (University of Georgia Press)
• Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler: Slaves, Aliens, Vampires by Gregory Jerome Hampton (Lexington Books)
• Civil War Citizens: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in America’s Bloodiest Conflict edited by Susanna J. Ural (New York University Press)
• Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement by Tomiko Brown-Nagin (Oxford University Press)
• Images of Black Modernism: Verbal and Visual Strategies of the Harlem Renaissance by Miriam Thaggert (University of Massachusetts Press)
• Making the San Fernando Valley: Rural Landscapes, Urban Development, and White Privilege by Laura R. Barraclough (University of Georgia Press)
• On Slavery’s Border: Missouri’s Small Slaveholding Households, 1815-1865 by Diane Mutti Burke (University of Georgia Press)
• Reversed Gaze: An African Ethnography of American Anthropology by Mwenda Ntarangwi (University of Illinois Press)
• Stare in the Darkness: The Limits of Hip-Hop and Black Politics by Lester K. Spence (University of Minnesota Press)
• The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life by Elijah Anderson (W.W. Norton & Co.)
• The Unstoppable Leader by James M. Howerton (Ecko House Publishing)
• Trading Places: Colonization and Slavery in Eighteenth-Century French Culture by Madeleine Dobie (Cornell University Press)
• Treme: Race and Place in a New Orleans Neighborhood by Michael E. Crutcher Jr. (University of Georgia Press)
• 12 Angry Men: True Stories of Being a Black Man in America Today edited by Gregory S. Parks and Matthew W. Hughey (The New Press)
• War, Empire, and Slavery, 1770-1830 edited by Richard Bessel et al. (Palgrave Macmillan)
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