Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African-American Scholars

November 9, 2011

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections. Click on any of the titles for more information or to purchase through Amazon.com.

Black Reflective Sociology: Epistemology, Theory, and Methodology by John H. Stanfield II (Left Coast Press)	Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere: From the Plantation to the Postcolonial by Raphael Dalleo (University of Virginia Press)	Diverse Millennial Students in College: Implications for Faculty and Student Affairs edited by Fred A. Bonner et al. (Stylus Publishing)
Elbert Parr Tuttle: Chief Jurist of the Civil Rights Revolution by Anne Emanuel (University of Georgia Press)	Environment at the Margins: Literary and Environmental Studies in Africa by Byron Caminero-Santangelo and Garth Myers (Ohio University Press)	Medgar Evers: Mississippi Martyr by Michael Vinson Williams (University of Arkansas Press)
Murder, the Media, and the Politics of Public Feelings: Remembering Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. by Jennifer Petersen (Indiana University Press)	Night’s Dancer: The Life of Janet Collins by Yael Tamar Lewin (Wesleyan University Press)	Not in Our Lifetimes: The Future of Black Politics by Michael C. Dawson (University of Chicago Press)
Opting Out: Losing the Potential of America’s Young Black Elite by Maya A. Beasley (University of Chicago Press)	Prisoner Reentry and Social Capital: The Long Road to Reintegration by Earl Smith and Angela J. Hattery (Lexington Books)	Racial Beachhead: Diversity and Democracy in a Military Town by Carol Lynn McKibben (Stanford University Press)
Southern Prohibition: Race, Reform, and Public Life in Middle Florida, 1821-1920 by Lee L. Willis (University of Georgia Press)	Super Black: American Popular Culture and Black Superheroes by Adilifu Nama (University of Texas Press)	The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race and Finding an American Family by Mark Auslander (University of Georgia Press)
	The Media Gaze: Representations of Diversities in Canada by Augie Fleras (University of British Columbia Press)