Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African American Scholars

Filed in Books on November 21, 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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A Post-Racial Change Is Gonna Come: Newark, Cory Booker, and the Transformation of Urban America by Jonathan L. Wharton (Palgrave Macmillan)	Biography and the Black Atlantic edited by Lisa A. Lindsay and John Wood Sweet (University of Pennsylvania Press)	Black Revolutionary: William Patterson and the Globalization of the African American Freedom Struggle by Gerald Horne (University of Illinois Press)
Black Women Against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil by Keisha-Khan Y. Perry (University of Minnesota Press)	Blinded by the Whites: Why Race Still Matters in 21st-Century America by David H. Ikard (Indiana University Press)	Desegregating Desire: Race and Sexuality in Cold War American Literature by Tyler T. Schmidt (University Press of Mississippi)
Difficult Diasporas: The Transnational Feminist Aesthetic by Samantha Pinto (New York University Press)	Laboratory of Learning: HBCU Laboratory Schools and Alabama State College Lab High in the Era of Jim Crow by Sharon Gay Pierson (Peter Lang International)	On the Corner: African American Intellectuals and the Urban Crisis by Daniel Matlin (Harvard University Press)
The Souls of White Folk: African American Writers Theorize Whiteness by Veronica T. Watson (University Press of Mississippi)	What’s Wrong with the Poor? Psychiatry, Race, and the War on Poverty by Mical Raz (University of North Carolina Press)	Zephaniah Kingsley Jr. and the Atlantic World: Slave Trader, Plantation Owner, Emancipator by Daniel L. Schafer (University Press of Florida)