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.

• Black Gotham: A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York City by Carla Peterson (Yale University Press)

• Campy: The Two Lives of Roy Campanella by Neil Lanctot (Simon & Schuster)

• Dirty South: OutKast, Lil Wayne, Soulja Boy, and the Southern Rappers Who Reinvented Hip Hop by Ben Westoff (Chicago Review)

• In Search of Asylum: The Later Writings of Eric Walrond edited by Louis J. Parascandola and Carl A. Wade (University Press of Florida)

• Letters From Black America: Intimate Portraits of the African American Experience edited by Pamela Newkirk (Random House)

• More Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States by Imani Perry (New York University Press)

• Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon by Kathryn Lofton (University of California Press)

• Public Engagement for Public Education: Joining Forces to Revitalize Democracy and Equalize Schools edited by Marion Orr and John Rogers (Stanford University Press)

• Race and Antiracism in Black British and British Asian Literature by Dave Gunning (Liverpool University Press)

• Radicalism at the Crossroads: African American Women Activists in the Cold War by Dayo F. Gore (New York University Press)

• The Black Professoriat: Negotiating a Habitable Space in the Academy edited by Sandra Jackson and Richard Greggory Johnson III (Peter Lang Publishing)

• The Imperfect Revolution: Anthony Burns and the Landscape of Race in Antebellum America by Gordon S. Barker (Kent State University Press)

• The Papers of Clarence Mitchell Jr., Volume IV: Director of the NAACP Washington Bureau, 1951-1954 edited by Denton L. Watson (Ohio University Press)

• Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness by Nicole R. Fleetwood (University of Chicago Press)

• White Kids: Language, Race, and Styles of Youth Identity by Mary Bucholtz (Cambridge University Press)

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