Congratulations to the following books for being named Choice Outstanding Academic Titles for 2018!

In awarding Outstanding Academic Titles, the editors use the following criteria to review titles:

• overall excellence in presentation and scholarship
• importance relative to other literature in the field
• distinction as a first treatment of a given subject in book or electronic form
• originality or uniqueness of treatment
• value to undergraduate students
• importance in building undergraduate library collections

Pink-Slipped: What Happened to Women in the Silent Film Industries?

By: Jane M. Gaines

Spirituals and the Birth of a Black Entertainment Industry

By: Sandra Jean Graham

Shame: A Brief History

By: Peter N. Stearns

Beyond Respectability: The Intellectual Thought of Race Women

By: Brittney C. Cooper