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. Click on any of the titles for more information or to purchase via Amazon.

• 12 Angry Men: True Stories of Being a Black Man in America Today edited by Gregory S. Parks and Matthew W. Hughey (The New Press)

• Black Faces of War by Robert V. Morris (Zenith Press)

• Bridging Race Divides: Black Nationalism, Feminism, and Integration in the United States, 1896-1935 by Kate Dossett (University Press of Florida)

• Enacting Others: Politics of Identity in Eleanor Antin, Nikki S. Lee, Adrian Piper, and Anna Deavere Smith by Cherise Smith (Duke University Press)

• Fighting Their Own Battles: Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas by Brian D. Behnken (University of North Carolina Press)

• Gary: The Most American of All American Cities by S. Paul O’Hara (Indiana University Press)

• Keepin’ It Hushed: The Barbershop and African American Hush Harbor Rhetoric by Vorris L. Nunley (Wayne State University Press)

• Making Care Count: A Century of Gender, Race, and Paid Care Work by Mignon Duffy (Rutgers University Press)

• Minority Women Entrepreneurs: How Outsider Status Can Lead to Better Business Practices by Mary Godwyn and Donna Stoddard (Stanford University Press)

• Queer Pollen: White Seduction, Black Male Homosexuality, and the Cinematic by David A. Gerstner (University of Illinois Press)

• Race and Sex Across the French Atlantic: The Color of Black in Literary, Philosophical, and Theater Discourse by Frieda Ekotto (Lexington Books)

• Sorcery in the Black Atlantic edited by Luis Nicolau Pares and Roger Sansi (University of Chicago Press)

• Strange Jeremiahs: Civil Religion and the Literary Imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W.E.B. Du Bois by Carole Lynn Stewart (University of New Mexico Press)

• The Almighty Black P Stone Nation: The Rise, Fall, and Resurgence of an American Gang by Natalie Y. Moore and Lance Williams (Lawrence Hill Books)

• The City, Revisited: Urban Theory From Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York edited by Dennis R. Judd and Dick Simpson (University of Minnesota Press)

• The Imperative of Integration by Elizabeth Anderson (Princeton University Press)

• The Postwar African American Novel: Protest and Discontent, 1945-1950 by Stephanie Brown (University Press of Mississippi)

• The Vigorous Core of Our Nationality: Race and Regional Identity in Northeastern Brazil by Stanley E. Blake (University of Pittsburgh Press)

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