Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African American Scholars

Filed in Books on January 31, 2013

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.

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A City Within a City: The Black Freedom Struggle in Grand Rapids, Michigan by Todd E. Robinson (Temple University Press)	A Renegade Union: Interracial Organizing and Labor Radicalism by Lisa Phillips (University of Illinois Press)	Dividing Lines: Class Anxiety and Postbellum Black Fiction by Andrea N. Williams (University of Michigan Press)
Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race edited by Harriet Pollack (University of Georgia Press)	Live Long and Prosper: How Black Megachurches Address HIV/AIDS and Poverty in the Age of Prosperity Theology by Sandra L. Barnes (Fordham University Press)	Martin’s Dream: My Journey and the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. by Clayborne Carson (Palgrave Macmillan)
Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves by Henry Wiencek (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)	Radical Moves: Caribbean Migrants and the Politics of Race in the Jazz Age by Lara Putnam (University of North Carolina Press)	Spectacular Wickedness: Sex, Race, and Memory in Storyville, New Orleans by Emily Epstein Landau (Louisiana State University Press)
The “Baby Dolls”: Breaking the Race and Gender Barriers of the New Orleans Mardi Gras Tradition by Kim Marie Vaz (Louisiana State University Press)	The Forgotten Prophet: Bishop Henry McNeal Turner and the African American Prophetic Tradition by Andre E. Johnson (Lexington Books)	The Legal Understanding of Slavery: From the Historical to the Contemporary edited by Jean Allain (Oxford University Press)
The Stickup Kids: Race, Drugs, Violence, and the American Dream by Randol Contreras (University of California Press)	Troubling the Family: The Promise of Personhood and the Rise of Multiracialism by Habiba Ibrahim (University of Minnesota Press)	Visionary Women Writers of Chicago’s Black Arts Movement by Carmen L. Phelps (University Press of Mississippi)