Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African American Scholars

The Jbooks-pileournal 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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African American Male Students in PreK-12 Schools:
Informing Research, Policy, and Practice

edited by James Moore III and Chance W. Lewis
(Emerald Group Publishing)

Josephine Baker and the Rainbow Tribe
by Matthew Pratt Guterl
(Harvard University Press)

Research Methods in Africana Studies
by Serie McDougal III
(Peter Lang International)

Sexual Discretion:
Black Masculinity and the Politics of Passing

by Jeffrey A. McCune Jr.
(University of Chicago Press)

Slavery and Freedom in Savannah
edited by Leslie M. Harris and Daina Ramey Berry
(University of Georgia Press)

Stories of the South:
Race and the Reconstruction of Southern Identity, 1865-1915

by K. Stephen Prince
(University of North Carolina Press)

The Spirit of an Activist:
The Life and Work of Isaiah DeQuincey Newman

edited by Sadye L.M. Logan
(University of South Carolina Press)

The Wrongs of the Right:
Language, Race, and the Republican Party in the Age of Obama

by Matthew W. Hughey and Gregory S. Parks
(New York University Press)

Whitman Noir:
Black America and the Good Gray Poet

edited by Ivy G. Wilson
(University of Iowa Press)

X:
The Problem of the Negro as a Problem for Thought

by Nahum Dimitri Chandler
(Fordham University Press)

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