Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African American Scholars
Filed in Books on July 2, 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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  America’s Longest Siege: Charleston, Slavery, and the Slow March Toward Civil War by Joseph Kelly (Overlook Hardover) |
  Beyond The Chinese Connection: Contemporary Afro-Asian Cultural Production by Crystal S. Anderson (University Press of Mississippi) |
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  Sister: An African American Life in Search of Justice by Silvia Bell White and Jody LePage (University of Wisconsin Press) |
  Still Running: The Autobiography of Nate Northington, the First African American Football Player in the Southeastern Conference by Nathantial Northington (iUniverse) |
  The Irony of the Solid South: Democrats, Republicans, and Race, 1865-1944 by Glenn Feldman (University of Alabama Press) |
Glenn Feldman’s book, THE IRONY OF THE SOLID SOUTH, is a tour de force on race and how the South became Republican–and on how that, in turn, helped the national GOP to ascend in recent America. It is MUST READING.