Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African American Scholars

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.

Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times by Robin D.G. Kelley (Harvard University Press)	Born Along the Color Line: The 1933 Amenia Conference and the Rise of a National Civil Rights Movement by Eben Miller (Oxford University Press)	Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership by Erica R. Edwards (University of Minnesota Press)
Crackback! How College Football Blindsides the Hopes of Black Coaches by Fitzgerald Hill with Mark Purdy (Tate Publishing)	Cultivating Race: The Expansion of Slavery in Georgia, 1750-1860 by Watson W. Jennison (University Press of Kentucky)	Negro Comrades of the Crown: African Americans and the British Empire Fight the U.S. Before Emancipation by Gerald Horne (New York University Press)
Rambles of a Runaway From Southern Slavery by Henry Goings edited by Calvin Schermerhorn et al. (University of Virginia Press)	The Immigration Crucible: Transforming Race, Nation, and the Limits of the Law by Philip Kretsedemas (Columbia University Press)	Water and African American Memory: An Ecocritical Perspective by Anissa Janine Wardi (University Press of Florida)