Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African American Scholars

Filed in Books on September 4, 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 World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida by N.D.B. Connolly (University of Chicago Press)	Between Slavery and Capitalism: The Legacy of Emancipation in the American South by Martin Ruef (Princeton University Press)	Black Spokane: The Civil Rights Struggle in the Inland Northwest by Dwayne A. Mack (University of Oklahoma Press)
Changing the Subject: Writing Women Across the African Diaspora by K. Merinda Simmons (Ohio State University Press)	Desire and Disaster in New Orleans: Tourism, Race, and Historical Memory by Lynnell L. Thomas (Duke University Press)	Finding Your Roots by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (University of North Carolina Press)
Old Islam in Detroit: Rediscovering the Muslim American Past by Sally Howell (Oxford University Press)	Race and Hegemonic Struggle in the United States: Pop Culture, Politics, and Protest edited by Michael G. Lacy and Mary E. Triece (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press)	Skin Acts: Race, Psychoanalysis, and the Black Male Performer by Michelle Ann Stephens (Duke University Press)
Teaching Criminology at the Intersection: A How-to Guide for Teaching About Gender, Race, Class and Sexuality edited by Rebecca M. Hayes et al. (Routledge)	The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics by Adam Ewing (Princeton University Press)	Urban Nightlife: Entertaining Race, Class, and Culture in Public Space by Reuben A. Buford May (Rutgers University Press)