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.

• A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar Ibn Said translated by Ala Alryyes (University of Wisconsin Press)

• Black Harvard/Black Yale: The Testament to America’s Greatest Hopes for Progress in Race and Education by Jesse Algeron Rhines (CreateSpace)

• Colonization and Its Discontents: Emancipation, Emigration, and Antislavery in Antebellum Pennsylvania by Beverly Tomek (New York University Press)

• Every Closed Eye Ain’t Sleep: African American Perspectives on the Achievement Gap by Teresa Hill (Rowman & Littlefied)

• Fighting Chance: The Struggle over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in Reconstruction America by Faye E. Dudden (Oxford University Press)

• House Signs and Collegiate Fun: Sex, Race, and Faith in a College Town by Chaise LaDousa (Indiana University Press)

• Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching by Julie Buckner Armstrong (University of Georgia Press)

• Mississippi John Hurt: His Life, His Times, His Blues by Philip Ratcliffe (University Press of Mississippi)

• Money Over Mastery, Family Over Freedom: Slavery in the Antebellum Upper South by Calvin Schermerhorn (Johns Hopkins University Press)

• Osogbo and the Art of Heritage: Monuments, Deities, and Money by Peter Probst (Indiana University Press)

• She’s Mad Real: Popular Culture and West Indian Girls in Brooklyn by Oneka LaBennett (New York University Press)

• Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America by Melissa V. Harris-Perry (Yale University Press)

• The Boys Club: Male Protagonists in Contemporary African American Young Adult Literature by Wendy Rountree (Peter Lang Publishing)

• The Noir Atlantic: Chester Himes and the Birth of the Francophone African Crime Novel by Pim Higginson (Liverpool University Press)

• The Politics of Dress in Somali Culture by Heather Marie Akou (Indiana University Press)

• The Search for the Legacy of the USPHS Syphilis Study at Tuskegee by Ralph Katz (Lexington Books)

• Under a Bad Sign: Criminal Self-Representation in African American Popular Culture by Jonathan Munby (University of Chicago Press)

• Wake Up: Hip-Hop Christianity and the Black Church by Cheryl Kirk-Duggan and Marlon Hall (Abingdon Press)

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