May 6, 2012

Weekly Book List, May 7, 2012

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Compiled by Nina C. Ayoub

AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

Jack Johnson, Rebel Sojourner: Boxing in the Shadow of the Global Color Line by Theresa Runstedtler (University of California Press; 376 pages; $34.95). Discusses the first African-American World Heavyweight Champion and his challenges to white supremacy at home and abroad.

ANTHROPOLOGY

Culture Works: Space, Value, and Mobility Across the Neoliberal Americas by Arlene Davila (New York University Press;