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.
• Afro-Pentecostalism: Black Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity in History and Culture edited by Amos Young and Estrelda Y. Alexander (New York University Press)
• Baltimore ‘68: Riots and Rebirth in an American City edited by Jessica Elfenbein et al. (Temple University Press)
• Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Creation of American Popular Culture, 1890-1930 by W. Fitzhugh Brundage (University of North Carolina Press)
• Black Woman Redefined: Dispelling Myths and Discovering Fulfillment in the Age of Michelle Obama by Sophia Nelson (BenBella Books)
• Collective Terms: Race, Culture, and Community in a State-Planned City in France by Beth S. Epstein (Berghahn Books)
• Hip Hop’s Inheritance: From the Harlem Renaissance to the Hip Hop Feminist Movement by Reiland Rabaka (Lexington Books)
• Knowing Otherwise: Race, Gender, and Implicit Understanding by Alexis Shotwell (Pennsylvania State University Press)
• Race and Economics: How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination? by Walter E. Williams (Hoover Institution Press)
• Slave Narratives After Slavery edited by William L. Andrews (Oxford University Press)
• Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry by Peter McCandless (Cambridge University Press)
• Specters of Democracy: Blackness and the Aesthetics of Politics in the Antebellum U.S. by Ivy G. Wilson (Oxford University Press)
• The African American Odyssey of John Kizell: The Life and Times of a South Carolina Slave Who Returned to Fight the Slave Trade in His African Homeland by Kevin G. Lowther (University of South Carolina Press)
• The American Dreams of John B. Prentis, Slave Trader by Kari J. Winter (University of Georgia Press)
• The Color of Justice: Race, Ethnicity, and Crime in America by Samuel Walker et al. (Wadsworth Publishing)
• Urban Design, Chaos, and Colonial Power in Zanzibar by William C. Bissell (Indiana University Press)
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