Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars

Filed in Books on October 27, 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 Immigrants’ Experiences in American Schools: Complicating the Race Discourse by Shirley Mthethwa-Sommers and Immaculee Harushimana (Lexington Books)	Albert Murray: Collected Essays & Memoirs edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Paul Devlin (Library of America)	Black Elephants in the Room: The Unexpected Politics of African American Republicans by Corey D. Fields (University of California Press)
Contemporary African American Families: Achievements, Challenges, and Empowerment Strategies in the Twenty-First Century edited by Dorothy Smith-Ruiz et al. (Routledge)	Crossing Parish Boundaries: Race, Sports, and Catholic Youth in Chicago, 1914-1954 by Timothy B. Neary (University of Chicago Press)	First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles by Damien N. Sojoyner (University of Minnesota Press)
Game Changers: Dean Smith, Charlie Scott, and the Era That Transformed a Southern College Town by Art Chancy (University of North Carolina Press)	Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers by Bobby Seale (Harry N. Abrams)	Pressed for All Time: Producing the Great Jazz Albums from Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday to Miles Davis and Diana Krall by Michael Jarrett (University of North Carolina Press)
Psychiatry and Racial Liberalism in Harlem, 1936-1968 by Dennis A. Doyle (University of Rochester Press)	The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham (Milkweed Editions)	The Murder of Sonny Liston: Las Vegas, Heroin, and Heavyweights by Shaun Assael (Blue Rider Press)
Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother’s Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South by Beth Macy (Little, Brown & Co.)	Water Tossing Boulders: How a Family of Chinese Immigrants Led the First Fight to Desegregate Schools in the Jim Crow South by Adrienne Bernard (Beacon Press)	With Signs Following: The Life and Ministry of Charles Harrison Mason by Raymond D. Smith (Chalice Press)