Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African American Scholars

Filed in Books on July 8, 2015

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. Click on any of the titles for more information or to purchase through Amazon.com.

All Those Strangers: The Art and Lives of James Baldwin by Douglas Field (Oxford University Press)	At the Cross: Race, Religion, and Citizenship in the Politics of the Death Penalty by Melynda J. Price (Oxford University Press)	Black Hollywood: From Butlers to Superheroes, the Changing Role of African American Men in the Movies by Kimberly Fain (Praeger)
Blaming the Poor: The Long Shadow of the Moynihan Report on Cruel Images About Poverty by Susan D. Greenbaum (Rutgers University Press)	Christianity, Islam, and Liberal Democracy: Lessons from Sub-Saharan Africa by Robert A. Dowd (Oxford University Press)	Freedom’s Dawn: The Last Days of John Brown in Virginia by Louis DeCaro Jr. (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)
In the Beginning: The Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel at Morehouse College edited by Echol Nix Jr. (Mercer University Press)	In the Face of Inequality: How Black Colleges Adapt by Melissa E. Wooten (State University of New York Press)	Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference: Race in Early Modern Philosophy by Justin E.H. Smith (Princeton University Press)
Polygyny: What It Means When African American Muslim Women Share Their Husbands by Debra Majeed (University Press of Florida)	Race and the Origins of American Neoliberalism by Randolph Hohle (Routledge)	Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa: Mediating Conflict in the Twenty-First Century by Winston Mano (I.B. Tauris)
Shoptalk: Lessons in Teaching from an African American Hair Salon by Yolanda J. Majors (Teachers College Press)	What Black People Are Afraid to Tell Themselves About Themselves: A False Self-Identity Among Black, Negro, Colored, and White People in the United States by Gerald S. Norde Sr. (Edwin Mellen Press)	When The Ball Drops: An Exploratory Study Of Inner-City College Athletes And Crime: Socialization, Risk, Strategy, And Hope by Dexter Juan Davis (Lambert Academic Publishing)