Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars

Filed in Books on July 28, 2016

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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Afro-Latin@s in Movement: Critical Approaches to Blackness and Transnationalism in the Americas edited by Petra R. Rivera-Rideau et al. (Palgrave Macmillan)	Becoming Black Political Subjects: Movements and Ethno-Racial Rights in Colombia and Brazil by Tianna S. Paschel (Princeton University Press)	Big Jim Eastland: The Godfather of Mississippi by J. Lee Annis (University Press of Mississippi)
Eddie Green: The Rise of an Early 1900s Black American Entertainment Pioneer by Elva Diane Green (BearManor Media)	Flight to Ohio: From Slavery to Passing to Freedom by Mary Anderson Parks (Tayen Lane Publishing)	From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Elizabeth Hinton (Harvard University Press)
Modern Religion, Modern Race by Theodore Vial (Oxford University Press)	Politicized Microfinance: Money, Power, and Violence in the Black Americas by Caroline Shenaz Hossein (University of Toronto Press)	Qualitative Research in STEM: Studies of Equity, Access, and Innovation edited by Sherry Marx (Routledge)
Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the African Diaspora: Travelling Blackness by Manoucheka Celeste (Routledge)	Stepping Lively in Place: The Not-Married, Free Women of Civil-War-Era Natchez, Mississippi by Joyce Broussard (University of Georgia Press)	The Neighborhood Has Its Own Rules: Latinos and African Americans in South Los Angeles by Cid Gregory Martinez (New York University Press)
The Politics of Black Citizenship: Free African Americans in the Mid-Atlantic Borderland, 1817-1863 by Andrew K. Diemer (University of Georgia Press)	The Psychic Hold of Slavery: Legacies in American Expressive Culture edited by Soyica Diggs Colbert et al. (Rutgers University Press)	Understanding Edward P. Jones by James W. Coleman (University of South Carolina Press)