Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars

Filed in Books on September 7, 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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African Coalitions and Global Economic Governance by Michael Byron Nelson (Cambridge University Press)	Aphrodite’s Daughters: Three Modernist Poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Maureen Honey (Rutgers University Press)	Before the Fires: An Oral History of African American Life in the Bronx From the 1930s to the 1960s by Mark Naison and Bob Gumbs (Fordham University Press)
Brown v. Board of Education: A Fight for Simple Justice by Susan Goldman Rubin (Holiday House)	Dark Work: The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island by Christy Clark-Pujara (New York University Press)	Margaret Garner: The Premiere Performances of Toni Morrison’s Libretto by La Vinia Delois Jennings (University of Virginia Press)
Moral Commerce: Quakers and the Transatlantic Boycott of the Slave Labor Economy by Julie L. Holcomb (Cornell University Press)	Nothing but Love in God’s Water: Volume 2: Black Sacred Music From Sit-Ins to Resurrection City by Robert Darden (Pennsylvania State University Press)	Obama on Our Minds: The Impact of Obama on the Psyche of America edited by Lori A. Barker (Oxford University Press)
Spirit in the Dark: A Religious History of Racial Aesthetics by Josef Sorett (Oxford University Press)	The Bridge to Brilliance: How One Principal in a Tough Community Is Inspiring the World by Nadia Lopez with Rebecca Paley (Viking Books)	Twists of Fate: Multiracial Coalitions and Minority Representation in the US House of Representatives by Vanessa C. Tyson (Oxford University Press)