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.
• Ahead of Her Time in Yesteryear: Geraldyne Pierce Zimmerman Comes of Age in a Southern African-American Family by Kabibi Mack-Shelton (University of Tennessee Press)
• Beyond Slavery: Overcoming Its Religious and Sexual Legacies edited by Bernadette Brooten (Palgrave Macmillan)
• Conservatism and Racism and Why in America They Are the Same by Robert C. Smith (State University of New York Press)
• Contemporary African Fashion edited by Suzanne Gott and Kristyne Loughran (Indiana University Press)
• Daily Demonstrators: The Civil Rights Movement in Mennonite Homes and Sanctuaries by Tobin Miller Shearer (Johns Hopkins University Press)
• Fame to Infamy: Race, Sport, and the Fall From Grace edited by David C. Ogden and Joel Nathan Rosen (University Press of Mississippi)
• Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitt (Little, Brown & Co.)
• Harlem: The Four Hundred Year History from Dutch Village to the Capital of Black America by Jonathan Gill (Grove Press)
• Inherently Unequal: The Betrayal of Equal Rights by the Supreme Court 1865-1903 by Lawrence Goldstone (Walker & Co.)
• Marshalling Justice: The Early Civil Rights Letters of Thurgood Marshall edited by Michael G. Long (HarperCollins)
• Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects by Christina Sharpe (Duke University Press)
• The Color of Law: Ernie Goodman, Detroit, and the Struggle for Labor and Civil Rights by Steve Babson et al. (Wayne State University Press)
• The History and Contemporary Relevance of the Thirteenth Amendment edited by Alexander Tsesis (Columbia University Press)
• The Law Is Good: The Voting Rights Act, Redistricting, and Black Regime Politics by Steven Andrew Light (Carolina Academic Press)
• You Are All Free: The Haitian Revolution and the Abolition of Slavery by Jeremy D. Popkin (Cambridge University Press)
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