Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African American Scholars

Filed in Books on September 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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African Americans and Homeschooling: Motivations, Opportunities and Challenges by Ama Mazama and Garvey Musumunu (Routledge)	Against Wind and Tide: The African American Struggle Against the Colonization Movement by Ousmane Power-Greene (New York University Press)	Death of a King: The Real Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Final Year by Tavis Smiley (Little, Brown & Co.)
From the Mississippi Cotton Fields to the State Senate, a Memoir by David L. Jordan (University Press of Mississippi)	Lincoln’s Gamble: The Tumultuous Six Months that Gave America the Emancipation Proclamation and Changed the Course of the Civil War by Todd Brewster (Scribner)	Pilgrimage Tourism of Diaspora Africans to Ghana by Ann Reed (Routledge)
Pulpit & Politics: Separation of Church & State in the Black Church by Marvin A. McMickle (Judson Press)	Race Unmasked: Biology and Race in the Twentieth Century by Michael Yudell (Columbia University Press)	Racial Conflict in Global Society by John Stone and Polly Rizova (Polity)
Sport, Racism and Social Media by Neil Farrington et al. (Routledge)	Staging the Blues: From Tent Shows to Tourism by Paige A. McGinley (Duke University Press)	The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist (Basic Books)
The Hip-Hop Underground and African American Culture: Beneath the Surface by James Braxton Peterson (Palgrave Macmillan)	The Poetics and Politics of Diaspora: Transatlantic Musings by Jerome C. Branche (Routledge)	Violent Intermediaries: African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism in German East Africa by Michelle R. Moyd (Ohio University Press)