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 Americans in Global Affairs: Contemporary Perspectives edited by Michael L. Clemons (Northeastern University Press)

• Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America by Eugene Robinson (Doubleday)

• Five Miles Away, A World Apart: Two Schools, One City and the Story of Educational Opportunity in Modern America by James Ryan (Oxford University Press)

• Men of Color to Arms! Black Soldiers, Indian Wars, and the Quest for Equality by Elizabeth D. Leonard (W.W. Norton)

• Newcomers, Outsiders, and Insiders: Immigrants and American Racial Politics in the Early Twenty-First Century by Yvette Alex-Assensoh (University of Michigan Press)

• On the Outskirts of Normal: Forging a Family Against the Grain by Debra Monroe (Southern Methodist University Press)

• Quality Education as a Constitutional Right: Creating a Grassroots Movement to Transform Public Schools by Theresa Perry et al. (Beacon Press)

• Race and the University: A Memoir by George Henderson (University of Oklahoma Press)

• The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States edited by Miriam J. Roman and Juan Flores (Duke University Press)

• The Business Strategy of Booker T. Washington: Its Development and Implementation by Michael B. Boston (University Press of Florida)

• The Handbook of Race and Adult Education: A Resource for Dialogue on Racism by Vanessa Sheared (Jossey-Bass)

• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson (Random House)

• Toward Freedom Land: The Long Struggle for Racial Equality in America by Harvard Sitkoff (University Press of Kentucky)

• Young Mr. Obama: Chicago and the Making of a Black President by Edward McClelland (Bloomsbury Press)

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