Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African American Scholars

Filed in Books on February 6, 2014

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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African Americans and Gentrification in Washington, D.C.: Race, Class and Social Justice in the Nation’s Capital by Sabiyha Prince (Ashgate Publishing)	Black Stats: African Americans by the Numbers in the Twenty-First Century by Monique W. Morris (New Press)	Close Kin and Distant Relatives: The Paradox of Respectability in Black Women’s Literature by Susana M. Morris (University of Virginia Press)
Educating the New Southern Woman: Speech, Writing, and Race at the Public Women’s Colleges, 1884-1945 by David Gold and Catherine L. Hobbs (Southern Illinois University Press)	Housing Discrimination Research: Racial and Ethnic Minorities and Same-Sex Couples edited by Maxwell Blake (Nova Science)	Multicultural Science Education: Preparing Teachers for Equity and Social Justice edited by Mary M. Atwater, Melody Russell, and Malcolm Butler (Springer)
Philosophical Foundations of Discrimination Law by Deborah Hellman and Sophia Moreau (Oxford University Press)	Reading Zadie Smith: The First Decade and Beyond edited by Philip Tew (Bloomsbury Academic)	The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature: Volume 2, 1920 to the Present edited by Gene Andrew Jarrett (Wiley-Blackwell)