Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars

Filed in Books on May 11, 2017

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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Black Movements: Performance and Cultural Politics by Soyica Diggs Colbert (Rutgers University Press)	From Boss Crump to King Willie: How Race Changed Memphis Politics by Otis Sanford (University of Tennessee Press)	Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray by Rosalind Rosenberg (Oxford University Press)
Porter, Steward, Citizen: An African American’s Memoir of World War I by Royal A. Christian (Oxford University Press)	Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Theology by M. Cooper Harriss (New York University Press)	Remember Little Rock by Erin Krutko Devlin (University of Massachusetts Press)
Slavery and Freedom in the Mid-Hudson Valley by Michael E. Groth (State University of New York Press)	The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6’4”, African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama’s Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian by W. Kamu Bell (Dutton)	The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die by Keith Payne (Viking Books)
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein (Liveright)	Theorizing Race in the Americas: Douglass, Sarmiento, Du Bois, and Vasconcelos by Juliet Hooker (Oxford University Press)	This African-American Life: A Memoir by Hugh B. Price (John F. Blair)