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.

• A White Side of Black Britain: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy by France Winddance Twine (Duke University Press)

• Adrian Piper: Race, Gender, and Embodiment by John P. Bowles (Duke University Press)

• Affirmative Reaction: New Formations of White Masculinity by Hamilton Carroll (Duke University Press)

• Alabama Getaway: The Political Imaginary and the Heart of Dixie by Allen Tullos (University of Georgia Press)

• Civil Rights Advocacy on Behalf of the Poor by Catherine M. Paden (University of Pennsylvania Press)

• Colonization After Emancipation: Lincoln and the Movement for Black Resettlement by Phillip W. Magness and Sebastian N. Page (University of Missouri Press)

• Domingos Alvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World by James H. Sweet (University of North Carolina Press)

• How Racism Takes Place by George Lipsitz (Temple University Press)

• Race for Citizenship: Black Orientalism and Asian Uplift From Pre-Emancipation to Neoliberal America by Helen Heran Jun (New York University Press)

• Soul of the Man: Bobby “Blue” Bland by Charles Farley (University Press of Mississippi)

• Sweet Water and Bitter: The Ships That Stopped the Slave Trade by Sian Rees (University of New Hampshire Press)

• Symbolic Forms for a New Humanity: Cultural and Racial Reconfigurations of Critical Theory by Drucilla Cornell and Kenneth Michael Panfilio (Fordham University Press)

• The African American Quest for Institutions of Higher Education Before the Civil War: The Forgotten Histories of the Ashmum Institute, Liberia College, and Avery College by Russell W. Irvine (Edwin Mellen Press)

• The Detroit School Busing Case: “Milliken v. Bradley” and the Controversy Over Desegregation by Joyce A. Baugh (University Press of Kansas)

• The New Entrepreneurs: How Race, Class, and Gender Shape American Enterprise by Zulema Valdez (Stanford University Press)

• The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics, and Aesthetics in the New Millennium by Michele Elam (Stanford University Press)

• Why Americans Don’t Join the Party: Race, Immigration, and the Failure (of Political Parties) to Engage the Electorate by Zoltan L. Hajnal and Taeku Lee (Princeton University Press)

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