Recent Books That May Be 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. Click on any of the titles for more information or to purchase through Amazon.com.

A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor (Palgrave Macmillan)	African American Identity: Racial and Cultural Dimensions of the Black Experience edited by Jas M. Sullivan et al. (Lexington Books)	Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography by Randal Maurice Jelks (University of North Carolina Press)
Church, State, and Race: The Discourse of American Religious Liberty, 1750-1900 by Ryan P. Jordan (University Press of America)	Hip Hop(e): The Cultural Practice and Critical Pedagogy of International Hip-Hop edited by Brad J. Porfilio and Michael J. Viola (Peter Lang Publishing)	Lincoln and Race by Richard Striner (Southern Illinois University Press)
Narrative Strategies in African Folktales: Revisiting the Russian Formalism by Juston S. Niati (PublishAmerica)	No Matter What… They’ll Call This Book Racist: How Our Fear of Talking Honestly About Race Hurts Us All by Harry Stein (Encounter Books)	Tambú: Curaçao’s African-Caribbean Ritual and the Politics of Memory by Nanette de Jong (Indiana University Press)