Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African American Scholars

Filed in Books on February 11, 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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Africa in Florida: Five Hundred Years of African Presence in the Sunshine State edited by Amanda B. Carlson and Robin Poynor (University Press of Florida)	African American Voices: A Documentary Reader from Emancipation to the Present by Leslie Brown (Wiley-Blackwell)	Amiri Baraka and Edward Dorn: The Collected Letters edited by Claudia Moreno Pisano (University of New Mexico Press)
Defining the Struggle: National Organizing for Racial Justice, 1880-1915 by Susan D. Carle (Oxford University Press)	Diplomacy in Black and White: John Adams, Toussaint Louverture, and Their Atlantic World Alliance by Ronald Angelo Johnson (University of Georgia Press)	Down to the Crossroads: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Meredith March Against Fear by Aram Goudsouzian (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Formation of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Nineteenth Century: Rhetoric of Identification by A. Nevell Owens (Palgrave Macmillan)	From the Mississippi Cotton Fields to the State Senate, a Memoir by David L. Jordan (University Press of Mississippi)	How the Slaves Saw the Civil War: Recollections of the War Through the WPA Slave Narratives by Herbert C. Covey and Dwight Eisnach (Praeger)
Louis Armstrong, Master of Modernism by Thomas Brothers (W.W. Norton)	Plantation Church: How African American Religion Was Born in Caribbean Slavery by Noel Leo Erskine (Oxford University Press)	Race, Real Estate, and Uneven Development: The Kansas City Experience, 1900-2010 by Kevin Fox Gotham (State University of New York Press)
The Forgotten History of African American Baseball by Lawrence Hogan (Praeger)	The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation by David Brion Davis (Alfred A. Knopf)