Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African American Scholars

Filed in Books on April 10, 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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A Dancer in the Revolution: Stretch Johnson, Harlem Communist at the Cotton Club by Howard Eugene Johnson (Fordham University Press)	A Spectacular Leap: Black Women Athletes in Twentieth-Century America by Jennifer H. Lansbury (University of Arkansas Press)	Black Pearls of Wisdom: Voicing the African-American Journey for Freedom, Empowerment, and the Future edited by Donald Spivey (Carolina Academic Press)
Black Power in the Caribbean edited by Kate Quinn (University Press of Florida)	Black Women as Custodians of History: Unsung Rebel (M)Others in African American and Afro-Cuban Women’s Writing by Paula Sanmartin (Cambria Press)	Building Atlanta: How I Broke Through Segregation to Launch a Business Empire by Herman J. Russell with Bob Andelman (Chicago Review Press)
Critical Race Theory and Copyright in American Dance: Whiteness as Status Property by Caroline Joan Picart (Palgrave Macmillan)	Fannie Barrier Williams: Crossing the Borders of Region and Race by Wanda A. Hendricks (University of Illinois Press)	Hannah Arendt and the Negro Question by Kathryn T. Gines (Indiana University Press)
Health Rights Are Civil Rights: Peace and Justice Activism in Los Angeles, 1963-1978 by Jenna M. Loyd (University of Minnesota Press)	Historical Dictionary of the Civil Rights Movement by Christopher M. Richardson and Ralph E. Luker (Rowman and Littlefield Publishers)	How Do Hurricane Katrina’s Winds Blow? Racism in 21st-Century New Orleans by Liza Lugo (Praeger)
Jackie and Campy: The Untold Story of Their Rocky Relationship and the Breaking of Baseball’s Color Line by William C. Kashautus (University of Nebraska Press)	Ordinary Theologies: Religio-Spirituality and the Leadership of Black Female Principals by Noelle Witherspoon Arnold (Peter Lang International)	Precarious Prescriptions: Contested Histories of Race and Health in North America edited by Laurie B. Green et al. (University of Minnesota Press)
Schools of Hope: How Julius Rosenwald Helped Change African American Education by Norman H. Finkelstein (Calkins Creek)	Sounding the Break: African American and Caribbean Routes of World Literature by Jason Frydman (University of Virginia Press)	The Colorblind Screen: Television in Post-Racial America edited by Sarah Nilsen and Sarah E. Turner (New York University Press)
The Oxford Handbook of the African American Slave Narrative edited by John Ernest (Oxford University Press)	The (Re-)Making of a Black American: Tracing the Racial and Ethnic Socialization of Caribbean American Youth by Chonika Coleman-King (Peter Lang International)	Uninvited Neighbors: African Americans in Silicon Valley, 1769–1990 by Herbert G. Rufflin II (University of Oklahoma Press)