Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African American Scholars

Filed in Books on March 12, 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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Crossing the Line: Women’s Interracial Activism in South Carolina During and After World War II by Cherisse Jones-Branch (University Press of Florida)	Free Black Communities and the Underground Railroad: The Geography of Resistance by Cheryl Janifer LaRoche (University of Illinois Press)	Imperial Blues: Geographies of Race and Sex in Jazz Age New York by Fiona I.B. Ngô (Duke University Press)
Marching Masters: Slavery, Race, and the Confederate Army During the Civil War by Colin Edward Woodward (University of Virginia Press)	Racisms: From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century by Francisco Bethencourt (Princeton University Press)	Reproduction, Race, and Gender in Philosophy and the Early Life Sciences edited by Susanne Lettow (State University of New York Press)
Second Line Home: New Orleans Poems by Mona Lisa Saloy (Truman State University Press)	Shuttles in the Rocking Loom: Mapping the Black Diaspora in African American and Caribbean Fiction by Jennifer Terry (Liverpool University Press)	Stokely: A Life by Peniel E. Joseph (Basic Civitas Books)
The African-American Experience in Nineteenth-Century Connecticut: Benevolence and Bitterness by Theresa Vara-Dannen (Lexington Books)	The Cultural Impact of Kanye West by Julius Bailey (Palgrave Macmillan)	The Mulatto Republic: Class, Race, and Dominican National Identity by April J. Mayes (University Press of Florida)
The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor by William Easterly (Basic Books)	We the People, Volume 3: The Civil Rights Revolution by Bruce Ackerman (Harvard University Press)	What Has This Got to Do with the Liberation of Black People?: The Impact of Ronald W. Walters on African American Thought and Leadership edited by Robert C. Smith et al. (State University of New York Press)