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.

• African Diaspora Identities: Negotiating Culture in Transnational Migration by John A. Arthur (Lexington Books)

• After the Dream: Black and White Southerners Since 1965 by Timothy J. Minchin and John A. Salmond (University of Kentucky Press)

• Border War: Fighting Over Slavery Before the Civil War by Stanley Harold (University of North Carolina Press)

• Constructing Affirmative Action: The Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity by David Hamilton Golland (University of Kentucky Press)

• Family of Freedom: Presidents and African Americans in the White House by Kenneth T. Walsh (Paradigm Publishers)

• Forever Doo-Wop: Race, Nostalgia, and Vocal Harmony by John Michael Runowicz (University of Massachusetts Press)

• Freud Upside Down: African American Literature and Psychoanalytic Culture by Badia Sahar Ahad (University of Illinois Press)

• Fugitive Slave on Trial: The Anthony Burns Case and Abolitionist Outrage by Earl M. Maltz (University Press of Kansas)

• Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC edited by Faith S. Holsaert et al. (University of Illinois Press)

• Is Marriage for White People? How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone by Ralph Richard Banks (Dutton Books)

• Jim Crow’s Counterculture: The Blues and Black Southerners, 1890-1945 by R.A. Lawson (Louisiana State University Press)

• No Safe Spaces: Re-Casting Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in American Theater by Angela C. Pao (University of Michigan Press)

• Playing the Numbers: Gambling in Harlem Between the Wars by Shane White et al. (Harvard University Press)

• Racial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California by Daniel Martinez HoSang (University of California Press)

• Raising Racists: The Socialization of White Children in the Jim Crow South by Kristina DuRocher (University of Kentucky Press)

• Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky: A Narrative by Francis Fedric, Escaped Slave edited by C.L. Innes (Louisiana State University Press)

• The Black History of the White House by Clarence Lusane (City Lights Publishers)

• The Fiction of Gloria Naylor: Houses and Spaces of Resistance by Maxine Lavon Montgomery (University of Tennessee Press)

• The Philosophy of Spike Lee by Mark T. Conard (University of Kentucky Press)

• The Politics of Paul Robeson’s Othello by Lindsey R. Swindall (University Press of Mississippi)

• The Quarters and the Fields: Slave Families in the Non-Cotton South by Damian Alan Pargas (University Press of Florida)

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