Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African American Scholars

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 New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic by Simon P. Newman (University of Pennsylvania Press)	A Storm Over This Court: Law, Politics, and Supreme Court Decision Making in Brown v. Board of Education by Jeffrey D. Hockett (University of Virginia Press)	After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Citizenship in the Reconstruction South edited by Bruce Baker and Brian Kelly (University Press of Florida)
Contemporary African American Literature: The Living Canon edited by Lovalerie King and Shirley Moody-Turner (Indiana University Press)	Overcoming Disadvantage in Education by Stephen Gorard and Beng Huat See (Routledge)	Race, Color, Identity: Rethinking Discourses About “Jews” in the Twenty-First Century edited by Efraim Sicher (Berghahn Books)
Sterilized by the State: Eugenics, Race, and the Population Scare in Twentieth-Century North America by Randall Hansen and Desmond King (Cambridge University Press)	Swift to Wrath: Lynching in Global Historical Perspective edited by William D. Carrigan and Christopher Waldrep (University of Virginia Press)	The Maroons of Prospect Bluff and Their Quest for Freedom in the Atlantic World by Nathaniel Millett (University Press of Florida)