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 Children and Mental Health edited by Nancy E. Hill et al. (Praeger Publishers)

• Black in Latin America by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (New York University Press)

• Bully Mother: The Story of Oumou Traore by Oumou Traore (AuthorHouse)

• Contesting Slavery: The Politics of Bondage and Freedom in the New American Nation by John Craig Hammond and Matthew Mason (University of Virginia Press)

• Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics and Big Business Re-Create Race in the Twenty-First Century by Dorothy Roberts (The New Press)

• Hollywood’s African American Films: The Transition to Sound by Ryan Jay Friedman (Rutgers University Press)

• Marching with Dr. King: Ralph Helstein and the United Packinghouse Workers of America by Cyril Robinson (Praeger Publishers)

• Multicultural Student Services on Campus: Building Bridges, Revisioning Community edited by Dafina Lazarus Stewart (Stylus Publishing)

• No Man’s Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor by Cindy Hahamovitch (Princeton University Press)

• Race in American Science Fiction by Isiah Lavender (Indiana University Press)

• Rosa Parks: A Biography by Joyce A. Hanson (Greenwood Press)

• The Anti-Slavery Project: From the Slave Trade to Human Trafficking by Joel Quirk (University of Pennsylvania Press)

• Through the Storm, Through the Night: A History of African American Christianity by Paul Harvey (Rowman & Littlefield)

• Two Centuries of Black Louisville: A Photographic History by Mervin Aubespin et al. (Butler Books)

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