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 More Noble Cause: A.P. Tureaud and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Louisiana by Rachel L. Emanuel and Alexander P. Tureaud Jr. (Louisiana State University Press)

• Anthems, Sonnets, and Chants: Recovering the African American Poetry of the 1930s by Jon Woodson (Ohio State University Press)

• Ballers of the New School: Race and Sports in America by Thabiti Lewis (Third World Press)

• British and African Literature in Transnational Context by Simon Lewis (University Press of Florida)

• Dewey and the Dilemma of Race: An Intellectual History, 1895-1922 by Thomas D. Fallace (Teachers College Press)

• Dreaming With the Ancestors: Black Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico by Shirley Boteler Mock (University of Oklahoma Press)

• Fathers, Preachers, Rebels, Men: Black Masculinity in U.S. History and Literature, 1820-1945 edited by Timothy R. Buckner and Peter Caster (Ohio State University Press)

• Hope on a Tightrope: Words & Wisdom by Cornel West (SmileyBooks)

• Langston Hughes and American Lynching Culture by W. Jason Miller (University of Illinois Press)

• Looking South: Race, Gender, and the Transformation of Labor From Reconstruction to Globalization by Mary E. Frederickson (University Press of Florida)

• Losing My Cool: How a Father’s Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-Hop Culture by Thomas Chatterton Williams (Penguin Books)

• Radical Reform: Interracial Politics in Post-Emancipation North Carolina by Deborah Beckel (University of Virginia Press)

• Second Skin: Josephine Baker and the Modern Surface by Anne Anlin Cheng (Oxford University Press)

• The Evolving Challenges of Black College Students: New Insights for Policy, Practice, and Research edited by Terrell L. Strayhorn and Melvin C. Terrell (Stylus Publishing)

• Yo Soy Negro: Blackness in Peru by Tanya Maria Golash-Boza (University Press of Florida)

• Zora Neale Hurston’s Final Decade by Virginia Lynn Moylan (University Press of Florida)

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