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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Before L.A.: Race, Space, and Municipal Power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894 by David Samuel Torres-Rouff (Yale University Press)	Black Resonance: Iconic Women Singers and African American Literature by Emily J. Lordi (Rutgers University Press)	Crafting Lives: African American Artisans in New Bern, North Carolina, 1770-1900 by Catherine W. Bishir (University of North Carolina Press)
Exits and Entrances: Seven Who Reshaped African-American Images in Movies by Frank Manchel (New Academia Publishing)	Lincoln and the U.S. Colored Troops by John David Smith (Southern Illinois University Press)	Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African and American Literature: Coloring Outside the (Black and White) Lines by Diana Adesola Mafe (Palgrave Macmillan)
Necessary Courage: Iowa’s Underground Railroad in the Struggle Against Slavery by Lowell J. Soike (University of Iowa Press)	Seeing Race in Modern America by Matthew Pratt Guteri (University of North Carolina Press)	Staging Faith: Religion and African American Theater From the Harlem Renaissance to World War II by Craig R. Prentiss (New York University Press)
The Haverford Discussions: A Black Integrationist Manifesto for Racial Justice edited by Michael Lackey (University of Virginia Press)	The Souls of White Folk: African American Writers Theorize Whiteness by Veronica T. Watson (University Press of Mississippi)	What Is Your Race? The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans by Kenneth Prewitt (Princeton University Press)