Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African American Scholars

Filed in Books on March 27, 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 Stereo: Modernism, Music, and Pan-African Solidarity by Tsitsi Ella Jaji (Oxford University Press)	African American Women Educators: A Critical Examination of Their Pedagogies, Educational Ideas, and Activism from the Nineteenth to the Mid-Twentieth Century edited by Karen A. Johnson et al. (R&L Education)	Black Power in the Caribbean by Kate Quinn (University Press of Florida)
Concordance: Black Lawmaking in the U.S. Congress from Carter to Obama by Katherine Tate (University of Michigan Press)	Everybody Else: Adoption and the Politics of Domestic Diversity in Postwar America by Sarah Potter (University of Georgia Press)	Heart-Sick: The Politics of Risk, Inequality, and Heart Disease by Janet K. Shim (New York University Press)
Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women: Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South by Blain Roberts (University of North Carolina Press)	Ring Shout, Wheel About: The Racial Politics of Music and Dance in North American Slavery by Katrina Dyonne Thompson (University of Illinois Press)	San Francisco Lithographer: African American Artist Grafton Tyler Brown by Robert J. Chandler (University of Oklahoma Press)
The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography by Jennifer Nash (Duke University Press)	The Long, Hot Summer of 1967: Urban Rebellion in America by Malcolm McLaughlin (Palgrave Macmillan)	Underserved Women of Color, Voice, and Resistance: Claiming a Seat at the Table edited by Sonja M. Brown Givens and Keisha Edwards Tassie (Lexington Books)