Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars

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.

After August: Blues, August Wilson, and American Drama by Patrick Maley (University of Virginia Press)	America the Beautiful and Violent: Black Youth and Neighborhood Trauma in Chicago by Dexter Voisin (Columbia University Press)	Everyday Crimes: Social Violence and Civil Rights in Early America by Kelly A. Ryan (New York University Press)
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century by Charles King (Doubleday)	In Sullivan’s Shadow: The Use and Abuse of Libel Law During the Long Civil Rights Struggle by Aimee Edmondson (University of Massachusetts Press)	Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions: A History of Race and Mental Illness in the Nation’s Capital by Martin Summer (Oxford University Press)
Making Black Scientists: A Call to Action by Marybeth Gasman and Thai-Huy Nguyen (Harvard University Press)	Murder in New Orleans: The Creation of Jim Crow Policing by Jeffrey S. Adler (University of Chicago Press)	Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code by Ruha Benjamin (Polity)
The Princeton Fugitive Slave: The Trials of James Collins Johnson by Lolita Buckner Inniss (Fordham University Press)	Vitality Politics: Health, Debility, and the Limits of Black Emancipation by Stephen Knadler (University of Michigan Press)	When I Was White: A Memoir by Sarah Valentine (St. Martin’s Press)