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 Uprising: The Untold Story of America’s Largest Slave Revolt by Daniel Rasmussen (HarperCollins)
• Black Power at Work: Community Control, Affirmative Action, and the Construction Industry edited by David Goldberg and Trevor Griffey (ILR Press/Cornell University Press)
• Black Theology, Slavery, and Contemporary Christianity by Anthony G. Reddie (Ashgate Publishing)
• I’m Black When I’m Singing, I’m Blue When I Ain’t and Other Plays by Sonia Sanchez (Duke University Press)
• Loyal Subjects: Bonds of Nation, Race, and Allegiance in Nineteenth-Century America by Elizabeth Duquette (Rutgers University Press)
• Rising Anthills: African and African American Writing on Female Genital Excision, 1960-2000 by Elisabeth Bekers (University of Wisconsin Press)
• Soul Music: Tracking the Spiritual Roots of Pop From Plato to Motown by Joel Rudinow (University of Michigan Press)
• The Price of Progressive Politics: The Welfare Rights Movement in an Era of Colorblind Racism by Rose Ernst (New York University Press)
• Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era by Chad L. Williams (University of North Carolina Press)
• Trustee for the Human Community: Ralph J. Bunche, the United Nations, and the Decolonization of Africa edited by Robert A. Hill and Edmond J. Keller (Ohio University Press)
• What Was African American Literature? by Kenneth Warren (Harvard University Press)
• “White Man’s Heaven”: The Lynching and Expulsion of Blacks in the Southern Ozarks, 1894-1909 by Kimberly Harper (University of Arkansas Press)
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