Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African American Scholars

Filed in Books on October 30, 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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Abandonment in Dixie: Underdevelopment in the Black Belt by Veronica Womack (Mercer University Press)	Becoming New York’s Finest: Race, Gender, and the Integration of the NYPD, 1935-1980 by Andrew T. Darien (Palgrave Macmillan)	Changing Minds, If Not Hearts: Political Remedies for Racial Conflict by James M. Glaser and Timothy J. Ryan (University of Pennsylvania Press)
Cutting Along the Color Line: Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America by Quincy T. Mills (University of Pennsylvania Press)	Escape From New York: The New Negro Renaissance Beyond Harlem edited by Davarian L. Baldwin and Minkah Makalani (University of Minnesota Press)	Hip Hop on Film: Performance Culture, Urban Space, and Genre Transformation in the 1980s by Kimberley Monteyne (University Press of Mississippi)
Idlewild: The Rise, Decline, and Rebirth of a Unique African American Resort Town by Ronald J. Stephens (University of Michigan Press)	Race, Ralph Ellison and American Cold War Culture by Richard Purcell (Palgrave Macmillan)	Reckoning Day: Race, Place, and the Atom Bomb in Postwar America by Jacqueline Foertsch (Vanderbilt University Press)
Strangers and Neighbors: Multiculturalism, Conflict, and Community in America by Andrea M. Voyer (Cambridge University Press)	Summer of Rage: An Oral History of the 1967 Newark and Detroit Riots by Max Arthur Herman (Peter Lang Publishing)	The Fort Pillow Massacre: North, South, and the Status of African Americans in the Civil War Era by Bruce Tap (Routledge)