Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African American Scholars

Filed in Books on September 11, 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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Beyond “A Love Supreme”: John Coltrane and the Legacy of an Album by Tony Whyton (Oxford University Press)	Changing School Culture for Black Males by Jawanza Kunjufu (African American Images)	Difficult Diasporas: The Transnational Feminist Aesthetic of the Black Atlantic by Samantha Pinto (New York University Press)
For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law by Randall Kennedy (Pantheon)	Mapping “Race”: Critical Approaches to Health Disparities Research edited by Laura E. Gomez and Nancy Lopez (Rutgers University Press)	Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance by Carla Kaplan (Harper)
New York City Public Schools From Brownsville to Bloomberg: Community Control and Its Legacy by Heather Lewis (Teachers College Press)	Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation by Estelle B. Freedman (Harvard University Press)	Saving Black Colleges: Leading Change in a Complex Organization by Alvin J. Schexnider (Palgrave Macmillan)
The Color of Our Shame: Race and Justice in Our Time by Christopher J. Lebron (Oxford University Press)	The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 by Alan Taylor (W.W. Norton)	The New Black: What Has Changed—and What Has Not—With Race in America edited by Kenneth W. Mack and Guy-Uriel Charles (New Press)