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.

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A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama’s America by Jacqueline Jones (Basic Books)	Afro-Jewish Encounters by William F.S. Miles (Markus Wiener Publishers)	Anthem: Social Movements and the Sound of Solidarity in the African Diaspora by Shana L. Redmond (New York University Press)
Black and Brown in Los Angeles: Beyond Conflict and Coalition edited by Josh Kun and Laura Pulido (University of California Press)	Black Men, Invisibility and Crime: Towards a Critical Race Theory of Desistance by Martin Glynn (Routledge)	Challenges on the Emmaus Road: Episcopal Bishops Confront Slavery, Civil War, and Emancipation by T. Felder Dorn (University of South Carolina Press)
Color Matters: Skin Tone Bias and the Myth of a Postracial America edited by Kimberly Jade Norwood (Routledge)	Confederate Slave Impressment in the Upper South by Jamie Amanda Martinez (University of North Carolina Press)	 Exodus Politics: Civil Rights and Leadership in African American Literature and Culture by Robert J. Patterson (University of Virginia Press)
 The Divided Mind of the Black Church: Theology, Piety, and Public Witness by Raphael G. Warnock (New York University Press)	Thin Description: Ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem by John L. Jackson Jr. (Harvard University Press)	Urban Ills: Twenty First Century Complexities of Urban Living in Global Contexts, Vol. 2 edited by Carol Camp Yeakey, Vetta L. Sanders Thompson, and Anjanette Wells (Rowman & Littlefield Publishing)