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.

• At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance — A New History of the Civil Rights Movement From Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power by Danielle L. McGuire (Alfred A. Knopf)

• Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast by Natasha Trethewey (University of Georgia Press)

• Black Women in Interracial Relationships by Kellina M. Craig-Henderson (Transaction Publishers)

• Brother Mine: The Correspondence of Jean Toomer and Waldo Frank edited by Kathleen Pfeiffer (University of Illinois Press)

• Children of Fire: A History of African Americans by Thomas C. Holt (Hill and Wang)

• Coltrane on Coltrane: The John Coltrane Interviews edited by Chris DeVito (Chicago Review)

• Damn Near White: An African American Family’s Rise From Slavery to Bittersweet Success by Carolyn Marie Wilkins (University of Missouri Press)

• Encyclopedia of African American Music by Emmett G. Price III et al. (ABC-CLIO/Greenwood)

• From Du Bois to Obama: African American Intellectuals in the Public Forum by Charles Pete Banner-Haley (Southern Illinois University Press)

• Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: New Poems by Alice Walker (New World Library)

• His Father’s Son: Tiger and Earl Woods by Tom Callahan (Gotham Books)

• Jury Discrimination: The Supreme Court, Public Opinion, and a Grassroots Fight for Racial Equality in Mississippi by Christopher Waldrep (University of Georgia Press)

• Malcolm X: A Life Reinvention by Manning Marable (Viking Books)

• Nelson Mandela: A Force for Freedom by Christina Scott (Carlton Books)

• Never to Leave Us Alone: The Prayer Life of Martin Luther King Jr. by Lewis V. Baldwin (Fortress Press)

• Tasting Freedom: Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War America by Daniel R. Biddle and Murray Dubin (Temple University Press)

• The Anthology of Rap edited by Adam Bradley and Andrew DuBois (Yale University Press)

• The Words of African-American Heroes edited by Clara Villarosa (Newmarket Press)

• Tradition and the Black Atlantic: Critical Theory in the African Diaspora by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Basic Books)

• Urban Bush Women: Twenty Years of African American Dance Theater, Community Engagement, and Working It Out by Nadine George-Graves (University of Wisconsin Press)

• When Blackness Rhymes With Blackness by Rowan Ricardo Phillips (Dalkey Archive Press)

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