Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African American Scholars

Filed in Books on August 7, 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 Human Necklace: The African Diaspora and Paule Marshall’s Fiction by Moira Ferguson (State University of New York Press)	A Touch of Greatness: A History of Tennessee State University by Bobby L. Lovett (Mercer University Press)	African American Life and Culture in Orange Mound: Case Study of a Black Community in Memphis, Tennessee, 1890-1980 by Charles Williams (Lexington Books)
Black Middle-Class Women and Pregnancy Loss: A Qualitative Inquiry by Lisa Paisley-Cleveland (Lexington Books)	Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South by Barbara Krauthamer (University of North Carolina Press)	Cotton and Conquest: How the Plantation System Acquired Texas by Roger G. Kennedy (University of Oklahoma Press)
Drop on Down in Florida: Field Recordings of African American Traditional Music 1977-1980 edited by Dwight DeVane (Dust to Digital)	First Class: The Legacy of Dunbar, America’s First Black Public High School by Alison Stewart (Chicago Review Press)	From Every Mountainside: Black Churches and the Broad Terrain of Civil Rights by R. Drew Smith (State University of New York Press)
Greater Than Equal: African American Struggles for Schools and Citizenship in North Carolina, 1919-1965 by Sarah Caroline Thuesen (University of North Carolina Press)	Slavery in American Children’s Literature, 1790-2010 by Paula T. Connolly (University of Iowa Press)	Slavery, Abortion, and the Politics of Constitutional Meaning by Justin Buckley Dyer (Cambridge University Press)
The Dark Before Dawn: From Civil Wrongs to Civil Light by Gerald Eubanks (iUniverse)	The Ebony Column: Classics, Civilization and the African American Reclamation of the West by Eric Ashley Hairston (University of Tennessee Press)	The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island by Mac Griswold (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)