Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars
Filed in Books on April 11, 2018
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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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  An Unseen Light: Black Struggles for Freedom in Memphis, Tennessee edited by Aram Goudsouzian and Charles W. McKinney Jr. (University Press of Kentucky) |
  Denmark Vesey’s Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy by Ethan J. Kytle and Blain Roberts (New Press) |
  Killing King: Racial Terrorists, James Earl Ray, and the Plot to Assassinate Martin Luther King Jr. by Stuart Wexler and Larry Hancock (Counterpoint) |
  Marriage in Black: The Pursuit of Married Life Among American-Born and Immigrant Blacks by Katrina Bell McDonald and Caitlin Cross-Barnet (Routledge) |
  Most of 14th Street Is Gone: The Washington, DC Riots of 1968 by J. Samuel Walker (Oxford University Press) |
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  Race, Culture, and Gender: Black Female Experiences of Violence and Abuse by Ava Kanyeredzi (Palgrave Macmillan) |
  To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice by Michael K. Honey (W.W. Norton) |
