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.

• A Level Playing Field: African American Athletes and the Republic of Sports by Gerald L. Early (Harvard University Press)

• American Uprising: The Untold Story of America’s Largest Slave Revolt by Daniel Rasmussen (Harper)

• Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade by David Eltis and David Richardson (Yale University Press)

• Blacks and Blackness in Central America: Between Race and Place edited by Lowell Gudmundson and Justin Wolfe (Duke University Press)

• Convergences: Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy edited by Maria del Guadalupe Davidson et al. (State University of New York Press)

• Global Circuits of Blackness: Interrogating the African Diaspora edited by Jean Muteba Rahier et al. (University of Illinois Press)

• New Philadelphia: An Archaeology of Race in the Heartland by Paul A. Shackel (University of California Press)

• Obama’s Race: The 2008 Election and the Dream of a Post-Racial America by Michael Tesler and David O. Sears (University of Chicago Press)

• Producing Local Color: Art Networks in Ethnic Chicago by Diane Grams (University of Chicago Press)

• Reasoning From Race: Feminism, Law, and the Civil Rights Revolution by Serena Mayeri (Harvard University Press)

• Reproducing Race: The Paradox of Generation Mix by Rainier Spencer (Lynne Rienner Publishers)

• Strangers in Blood: Relocating Race in the Renaissance by Jean E. Feerick (University of Toronto Press)

• The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960 by Lawrence P. Jackson (Princeton University Press)

• The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas edited by Robert L Paquette et al. (Oxford University Press)

• Troubled Ground: A Tale of Murder, Lynching, and Reckoning in the New South by Claude A. Clegg III (University of Illinois Press)

• Writing the Black Revolutionary Diva: Women’s Subjectivity and the Decolonizing Text by Kimberly Nichele Brown (Indiana University Press)

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