Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African American Scholars

Filed in Books on September 25, 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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Another America: The Story of Liberia and the Former Slaves Who Ruled It by James Ciment (Hill & Wang)	Beyond Redemption: Race, Violence, and the American South After the Civil War by Carole Emberton (University of Chicago Press)	Birmingham and the Long Black Freedom Struggle by Robert W. Widell Jr. (Palgrave Macmillan)
Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities by Craig Steven Wilder (Bloomsbury Press)	Ella Baker: Community Organizer of the Civil Rights Movement by J. Todd Moye (Rowman & Littlefield)	Philadelphia Freedoms: Black American Trauma, Memory, and Culture After King by Michael Awkward (Temple University Press)
Republicans and Race: The GOP’s Frayed Relationship with African Americans, 1945-1974 by Timothy N. Thurber (University Press of Kansas)	Theoretical Frameworks in College Student Research by Terrell L. Strayhorn (University Press of America/Rowman & Littlefield)	Zora Neale Hurston, Haiti, and Their Eyes Were Watching God edited by La Vinia Delois Jennings (Northwestern University Press)