Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African American Scholars

Filed in Books on March 18, 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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C. L. R. James in Imperial Britain by Christian Hogsbjerg (Duke University Press)	Degrees of Inequality: How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream by Suzanne Mettler (Basic Books)	Haiti: From Revolutionary Slaves to Powerless Citizens: Essays on the Politics and Economics of Underdevelopment, 1804-2013 by Alex Dupuy (Routledge)
“Re-Membering” History in Student and Teacher Learning: An Afrocentric Culturally Informed Praxis by Joyce E. King and Ellen E. Swartz (Routledge)	Richard Wright and Haiku by Yoshinobu Hakutani (University of Missouri Press)	Sexual Discretion: Black Masculinity and the Politics of Passing by Jeffrey Q. McCune Jr. (University of Chicago Press)
Shattered Glass in Birmingham: My Family’s Fight for Civil Rights, 1961-1964 by Randall C. Jimerson (Louisiana State University Press)	The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act by Clay Risen (Bloomsbury Press)	West African Drumming and Dance in North American Universities: An Ethnomusicological Perspective by George Worlasi Kwasi Dor (University Press of Mississippi)