Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African American Scholars

Filed in Books on February 19, 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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Black British Intellectuals and Education: Multiculturalism’s Hidden History by Paul Warmington (Routledge)	Black Print With a White Carnation: Mildred Brown and the Omaha Star Newspaper, 1938-1989 by Amy Helene Forss (University of Nebraska Press)	Breathing Race Into the Machine: The Surprising Career of the Spirometer From Plantation to Genetics by Lundy Braun (University of Minnesota Press)
Cameroonian Immigrants in the United States: Between the Homeland and the Diaspora by Joseph Takougang (Lexington Books)	Exploring Race in Predominantly White Classrooms: Scholars of Color Reflect edited by George Yancy and Maria del Guadalupe Davidson (Routledge)	From Storefront to Monument: Tracing the Public History of the Black Museum Movement by Andrea A. Burns (University of Massachusetts Press)
Hidden History: African American Cemeteries in Central Virginia by Lynn Rainville (University of Virginia Press)	Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era by Saladin Ambar (Oxford University Press)	Race and Culture in New Orleans Stories: Kate Chopin, Grace King, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, and George Washington Cable by James Nagel (University of Alabama Press)
Sharecropper’s Troubadour: John L. Handcox, the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union, and the African American Song Tradition by Michael K. Honey (Palgrave Macmillan)	Shrill Hurrahs: Women, Gender, and Racial Violence in South Carolina, 1865-1900 by Kate Cote Gillin (University of South Carolina Press)	Slaves and Englishmen: Human Bondage in the Early Modern Atlantic World by Michael Guasco (University of Pennsylvania Press)
The South Carolina Roots of African American Thought: A Reader by Rhondda Robinson Thomas and Susanna Ashton (University of South Carolina Press)	The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature: Volume 1, 1746-1920 edited by Gene Andrew Jarrett (Wiley-Blackwell)	Where the Negroes Are Masters: An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade by Randy Sparks (Harvard University Press)