Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African American Scholars

Filed in Books on June 6, 2012

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. The books included are on a wide variety of subjects and present many different points of view. The opinions expressed in these books do not necessarily reflect the views of the editorial board of JBHE.

Here are the latest selections. Click on any of the titles for more information or to purchase through Amazon.com.

A History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865 by George Washington Williams (Fordham University Press)	Africans to Spanish America: Expanding the Diaspora edited by Sherwin K. Bryant et al. (University of Illinois Press)	Child Care in Black and White: Working Parents and the History of Orphanages by Jessie B. Ramey (University of Illinois Press)
Displaced: Life in the Katrina Diaspora by Lynn Weber and Lori Peek (University of Texas Press)	Enhancing Minority Student Retention and Academic Performance: What We Can Learn From Program Evaluations by Jacqueline Fleming (Jossey-Bass)	Faithful to the Task at Hand: The Life of Lucy Diggs Slowe by Carroll L.L. Miller and Anne S. Pruitt-Logan (State University of New York Press)
Imoinda’s Shade: Marriage and the African Woman in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, 1759-1808 by Lyndon J. Dominique (Ohio State University Press)	Presbyterians in North Carolina: Race, Politics, and Religious Identity in Historical Perspective by Walter H. Cosner Jr. and Robert J. Cain (University of Tennessee Press)	The Folly of Jim Crow: Rethinking the Segregated South edited by Stephanie Cole and Natalie J. Ring (Texas A&M University Press)
Unlikely Allies in the Academy: Women of Color and White Women in Conversation by Karen L. Dace (Routledge)	Wolf Tracks: Popular Art and Re-Africanization in Twentieth-Century Panama by Peter Szok (University Press of Mississippi)	Yoruba Traditions and African American Religious Nationalism by Tracey E. Hucks (University of New Mexico Press)