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.

• African-American/Afro-Canadian Schooling: From the Colonial Period to the Present by Charles L. Glenn (Palgrave Macmillan)

• America’s Historically Black Colleges: A Narrative History, 1837-2009 by Bobby L. Lovett (Mercer University Press)

• Black Womanist Leadership: Tracing the Motherline edited by Toni C. King and S. Alease Ferguson (State University of New York Press)

• Crusade Against Slavery: Edward Coles, Pioneer of Freedom by Kurt E. Leichtle and Bruce C. Carveth (Southern Illinois University Press)

• Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America by Douglas R. Egerton (Oxford University Press)

• Diversity in American Higher Education by Lisa M. Stulberg and Sharon Lawner Weinberg (Routledge)

• From David Walker to Barack Obama: Ethiopianists as Keepers of the African Dream by Emma S. Etuk (iUniverse)

• Holy Harlots: Femininity, Sexuality, and Black Magic in Brazil by Kelly E. Hayes (University of California Press)

• Howard Zinn on Race by Howard Zinn (Seven Stories Press)

• Intercultural Couples: Crossing Boundaries, Negotiating Difference by Jill M. Bystydzienski (New York University Press)

• Kids Don’t Want to Fail: Oppositional Culture and the Black-White Achievement Gap by Angel L. Harris (Harvard University Press)

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

• People Wasn’t Made to Burn: A True Story of Housing, Race, and Murder in Chicago by Joe Allen (Haymarket Books)

• Sojourning for Freedom: Black Women, American Communism, and the Making of Black Left Feminism by Erik S. McDuffie (Duke University Press)

• The African American Roots of Modernism: From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance by James Smethurst (University of North Carolina Press)

• The New CEOs: Women, African American, Latino, and Asian American Leaders of Fortune 500 Companies by Richard Zweigenhaft and G. William Domhoff (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)

• Women and Slavery in America: A Documentary History edited by Catherine M. Lewis and J. Richard Lewis (University of Arkansas Press)

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