Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African American Scholars

Filed in Books on June 20, 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.

Beyond Stock Stories and Folktales: African Americans’ Paths to STEM Fields edited by Henry T. Frierson and William F. Tate (Emerald Group Publishing)	Black Women and Politics in New York City by Julie A. Gallagher (University of Illinois Press)	Contemporary Black American Cinema: Race, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies by Mia Mask (Routledge)
Hip Hop’s Amnesia: From Blues and the Black Women’s Club Movement to Rap and the Hip Hop Movement by Reiland Rabaka (Lexington Books)	Racial Ambivalence in Diverse Communities: Whiteness and the Power of Color-Blind Ideologies by Meghan A. Burke (Lexington Books)	Research on Schools, Neighborhoods and Communities: Toward Civic Responsibility by William F. Tate IV (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)
Segregation: A Global History of Divided Cities by Carl H. Nightingale (University of Chicago Press)	The One Hundred Year History of the Phelps-Stokes Fund as a Family Philanthropy by Belinda H.Y. Chiu (Edwin Mellen Press)	The Price of the Ticket: Barack Obama and Rise and Decline of Black Politics by Fredrick Harris (Oxford University Press)