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. Philip Randolph and the Struggle for Civil Rights by Cornelius L. Bynum (University of Illinois Press)

• Becoming American: The African American Quest for Civil Rights, 1861-1976 by Daniel W. Aldridge III (Harlan Davidson Publishers)

• “Ethnically Qualified”: Race, Merit, and the Selection of Urban Teachers, 1920-1980 by Christina Collins (Teachers College Press)

• Footprints of Black Louisiana by Norman R. Smith (Xlibris)

• From Africa to America: Religion and Adaptation Among Ghanaian Immigrants in New York by Moses O. Biney (New York University Press)

• I’ve Got to Make My Livin’: Black Women’s Sex Work in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago by Cynthia M. Blair (University of Chicago Press)

• In the Eyes of God: American Public Education in the Twenty-First Century by William Stanley Ponder (iUniverse)

• Indigenization of Language in the African Francophone Novel: A New Literary Canon by Peter W. Vakunta (Peter Lang Publishing)

• Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature by Cynthia Callahan (University of Michigan Press)

• Raceball: How the Major Leagues Colonized the Black and Latin Game by Rob Ruck (Beacon Press)

• Representing Africa in American Art Museums: A Century of Collecting and Display edited by Kathleen Bickford Berzock and Christa Clarke (University of Washington Press)

• The Black-Print: Black America’s Blueprint for Achieving Wealth, Prosperity and Respect by Malik Green (Outskirts Press)

• The Communication of Hate by Michael Waltman and John Haas (Peter Lang Publishing)

• The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey From Black to White by Daniel J. Sharfstein (Penguin Press)

• The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell It Like It Is edited by Maegan Parker Brooks and Davis W. Houck (University Press of Mississippi)

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