Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African American Scholars

Filed in Books on November 12, 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.

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African American Student’s Guide to College Success by F. Erik Brooks and Glenn L. Starks (Greenwood Publishing)	Between Fetters and Freedom: African American Baptists Since Emancipation by Edward R. Crowther and Keith Harper (Mercer University Press)	Black Men in the Academy: Narratives of Resiliency, Achievement, and Success edited by Brian L. McGowan (Palgrave Macmillan)
Church Ladies: Untold Stories of Harlem Women in the Powell Era by Martia G. Goodson (AuthorHouse)	Color Stories: Black Women and Colorism in the 21st Century by JeffriAnne Wilder (Praeger)	Cultivating Racial and Linguistic Diversity in Literacy Teacher Education: Teachers Like Me by Marcelle M. Haddix (Routledge)
Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black Feminist Art and Performance by Uri McMillan (New York University Press)	Harlem’s Theaters: A Staging Ground for Community, Class, and Contradiction, 1923-1939 by Adrienne Macki Braconi (Northwestern University Press)	Houston Bound: Culture and Color in a Jim Crow City by Tyina Steptoe (University of California Press)
How Racism and Sexism Killed Traditional Media: Why the Future of Journalism Depends on Women and People of Color by Joshunda V. Sanders (Praeger)	In Their Voice: Black Americans on Transracial Adoptions by Rhonda M. Roorda (Columbia University Press)	Lessons from the Black Working Class: Foreshadowing America’s Economic Health by Lori Latrice Martin et al. (Praeger)
Liberalizing Lynching: Building a New Racialized State by Damiel Kato (Oxford University Press)	Managing Expectations and Policy Responses to Racism in Sport: Codes Combined edited by Keir Reeves et al. (Routledge)	Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century’s Most Photographed American by John Stauffer et al. (Liveright)
Prefiguring Postblackness: Cultural Memory, Drama, and the African American Freedom Struggle of the 1960s by Carol Bunch Davis (University Press of Mississippi)	The Hip Hop & Obama Reader edited by Travis L. Gosa and Erik Nielson (Oxford University Press)	The Papers of Howard Washington Thurman: Volume 3: The Bold Adventure, September 1943-May 1949 edited by Walter Earl Fluker (University of South Carolina Press)