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

November 18, 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.

Ashamed to Die: Silence, Denial, and the AIDS Epidemic in the South by Andrew J. Skerritt (Lawrence Hills Books)	Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination by Alondra Nelson (University of Minnesota Press)	Defending White Democracy: The Making of a Segregationist Movement and the Remaking of Racial Politics, 1936-1965 by Jason Morgan Ward (University of North Carolina Press)
Dreams and Nightmares: Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and the Struggle for Black Equality in America by Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson (University of Florida Press)	Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum by Bridget R. Cooks (University of Massachusetts Press)	Funerals in Africa: Explorations of a Social Phenomenon edited by Michael Jindra and Joel Noret (Berghahn Books)
Human Rights and African Airwaves: Mediating Equality on the Chichewa Radio by Harri Englund (Indiana University Press)	John Brown Still Lives! America’s Long Reckoning With Violence, Equality, and Change by R. Blakeslee Gilpin (University of North Carolina Press)	Kentucky Rising: Democracy, Slavery, and Culture From the Early Republic to the Civil War by James A. Ramage and Andrea S. Watkins (University Press of Kentucky)
Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage by Vincent Caretta (University of Georgia Press)	Races of Mankind: The Sculptures of Malvina Hoffman by Marianne Kinkel (University of Illinois Press)	Robert R. Taylor and Tuskegee: An African American Architect Designs for Booker T. Washington by Ellen Weiss (NewSouth Books)
Signifying Without Specifying: Racial Discourse in the Age of Obama by Stephanie Li (Rutgers University Press)	The African American Struggle for Secondary Schooling, 1940-1980: Closing the Graduation Gap by John L. Rury and Shirley A. Hill (Teachers College Press)	The Creolizing Subject: Race, Reason, and the Politics of Purity by Michael J. Monahan (Fordham University Press)
The Ethiopian Prophecy in Black American Letters by Roy Kay (University Press of Florida)	The Materiality of Freedom: Archaeologies of Postemancipation Life edited by Jodi A. Barnes (University of South Carolina Press)