Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African-American Scholars

Each month, the JBHE Weekly Bulletin publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here is this month’s selection:

• Acting White: The Ironic Legacy of Desegregation by Stuart Buck (Yale University Press)

• African Soccerscapes: How a Continent Changed the World’s Game by Peter Alegi (Ohio University Press)

• African-American Life in the Georgia Lowcounty: The Atlantic World and the Gullah Geechee edited by Philip Morgan (University of Georgia Press)

• An Example for All the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle Over Equality in Washington, D.C. by Kate Masur (University of North Carolina Press)

• Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora edited by Akinwumi Ogundiran and Toyin Falola (Indiana University Press)

• Black Los Angeles: American Dreams and Racial Realities edited by Darnell Hunt and Ana-Christina Ramon (New York University Press)

• Blackness in the White Nation: A History of Afro-Uruguay by George Reid Andrews (University of North Carolina Press)

• Border War: Fighting Over Slavery Before the Civil War by Stanley Harrold (University of North Carolina Press)

• Change Is Gonna Come: Transforming Literacy Education for African-American Students by Patricia A. Edwards et al. (Teachers College Press)

• Cheddi Jagan and the Politics of Power: British Guiana’s Struggle for Independence by Colin A. Palmer (University of North Carolina Press)

• Child of the Fire: Mary Edmonia Lewis and the Problem of Art History’s Black and Indian Subject by Kirsten Pai Buick (Duke University Press)

• Cooking in Other Women’s Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South, 1865-1960 by Rebecca Sharpless (University of North Carolina Press)

• Duke Ellington’s America by Harvey G. Cohen (University of Chicago Press)

• Econocide: British Slavery in the Era of Abolition by Seymour Drescher (University of North Carolina Press)

• Encountering Revolution: Haiti and the Making of the Early Republic by Ashli White (Johns Hopkins University Press)

• Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy by Bruce Watson (Viking Books)

• Hearts Beating for Liberty: Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest by Stacey M. Robertson (University of North Carolina Press)

• I Belong to South Carolina: South Carolina Slave Narratives edited by Susanna Ashton et al. (University of South Carolina Press)

• I Walked With Giants: The Autobiography of Jimmy Heath by Jimmy Heath and Joseph McLaren (Temple University Press)

• Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle by Leigh Raiford (University of North Carolina Press)

• It Is Well With My Soul: The Extraordinary Life of a 106-Year-Old Woman by Ella Mae Cheeks Johnson with Patricia Mulcahy (Penguin Books)

• King of the Court: Bill Russell and the Basketball Revolution by Aram Goudsouzian (University of California Press)

• LeBron’s Dream Team: How Five Friends Made History by Lebron James and Buzz Bissinger (Penguin Books)

• Living the Drama: Community, Conflict, and Culture Among Inner-City Boys by David J. Harding (University of Chicago Press)

• Mentoring and Diversity: Tips for Students and Professionals for Developing and Maintaining a Diverse Scientific Community by Thomas Landefeld (Springer)

• Midnight at the Barrelhouse: The Johnny Otis Story by George  Lipsitz (University of Minnesota Press)

• Natalie Curtis Burlin: A Life in Native and African-American Music by Michelle Wick Patterson (University of Nebraska Press)

• Nobody Turn Me Around: A People’s History of the 1963 March on Washington by Charles Euchner (Beacon Press)

• North of the Color Line: Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955 by Sarah-Jane Mathieu (University of North Carolina Press)

• Original Gangster: The Real Life Story of One of America’s Most Notorious Drug Lords by Frank Lucas and Aliya S. King (St. Martin’s Press)

• Rabble Rousers: The American Far Right in the Civil Rights Era by Clive Webb (University of Georgia Press)

• Reconstituting Whiteness: The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission by Jenny Irons (Vanderbilt University Press)

• Schooling the Freed People: Teaching, Learning, and the Struggle for Black Freedom, 1861-1876 by Ronald E. Butchart (University of North Carolina Press)

• Scout, Atticus, and Boo: A Celebration of Fifty Years of To Kill A Mockingbird by Mary McDonagh Murphy (HarperCollins)

• Segregating Sound: Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow by Karl Hagstrom Miller (Duke University Press)

• Stormy Weather: Middle-Class African American Marriages Between the Two World Wars by Anastasia C. Curwood (University of North Carolina Press)

• Talk With You Like a Woman: African American Women, Justice, and Reform in New York, 1890-1935 by Cheryl D. Hicks (University of North Carolina Press)

• The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel by Julia Sun-Joo Lee (Oxford University Press)

• The Black Clergy’s Misguided Worship Leadership by Christopher C. Bell Jr. (Trafford Publishing)

• The Horrible Gift of Freedom: Atlantic Slavery and the Representation of Emancipation by Marcus Wood (University of Georgia Press)

• The Life and Letters of Philip Quaque, the First African Anglican Missionary edited by Vincent Carretta and Ty M. Reese (University of Georgia Press)

• The Quest for Citizenship: African American and Native American Education in Kansas, 1880-1935 by Kim Cary Warren (University of North Carolina Press)

• The World Has Changed: Conversations With Alice Walker edited by Rudolph P. Byrd (New Press)

• Three Ancient Colonies: Caribbean Themes and Variations by Sidney W. Mintz (Harvard University Press)

• Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era by Chad L. Williams (University of North Carolina Press)

• Way Up North in Louisville: African American Migration in the Urban South, 1930-1970 by Luther Adams (University of North Carolina Press)

• Why Race and Culture Matter in Schools: Closing the Achievement Gap in America’s Classrooms by Tyrone C. Howard (Teachers College Press)

• You Don’t Know Me: Reflections of My Father, Ray Charles by Ray Charles Robinson Jr. (Harmony Books)

• Zebratown: The True Story of a Black Ex-Con and a White Single Mother in Small Town America by Greg Donaldson (Scribner Books)

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