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 Home Elsewhere: Reading African American Classics in the Age of Obama by Robert B. Stepto (Harvard University Press)

• Acting White: The Ironic Legacy of Desegregation by Stuart Black (Yale University Press)

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

• Conjuring Crisis: Racism and Civil Rights in a Southern Military City by George Baca (Rutgers University Press)

• DanceHall: From Slave Ship to Ghetto by Sonjah Stanley Niaah (University of Ottawa Press)

• Delia’s Tears: Race, Science, and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America by Molly Rogers (Yale University Press)

• Different Drummers: Rhythm and Race in the Americas by Martin Munro (University of California Press)

• Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory and the Black Body by Harvey Young (University of Michigan Press)

• From Douglass to Duvalier: U.S. African Americans, Haiti, and Pan-Americanism, 1870-1964 by Millery Polyne (University Press of Florida)

• In Brown’s Wake: Legacies of America’s Educational Landmark by Martha Minow (Oxford University Press)

• Katrina’s Imprint: Race and Vulnerability in America by Keith Wailoo et al. (Rutgers University Press)

• Nobody Turn Me Around: A People’s History of the 1963 March on Washington by Charles Euchner (Beacon Press)

• Phillis Wheatley and the Romantics by John C. Shields (University of Tennessee Press)

• The Great Task Remaining Before Us: Reconstruction as America’s Continuing Civil War edited by Paul A.  Cimbala and Randall M. Miller (Fordham University Press)

• The Harlem Renaissance Revisited: Politics, Arts, and Letters edited by Jeffrey O.G. Ogbar (Johns Hopkins University Press)

• The Hidden Curriculum: Life Lessons You Won’t Learn in the Classroom by Rubin Cockrell (Yorkshire Publishing)

• The Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress by William Jelani Cobb (Walker & Company)

• Yes, I Am, Who I Am: A New Philosophy of Black Identity by Michael Eric Owens (Yorkshire Publishing)

• Zimbabwe’s New Diaspora: Displacement and the Cultural Politics of Survival edited by JoAnn McGregor and Ranka Primorac (Berghahn Books)

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