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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After Civil Rights: Racial Realism in the New American Workplace by John D. Skrentny (Princeton University Press)	Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind by Osagie K. Obasogie (Stanford University Press)	Bound to Appear: Art, Slavery, and the Site of Blackness in Multicultural America by Huey Copeland (University of Chicago Press)
Cutting Along the Color Line: Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America by Quincy T. Mills (University of Pennsylvania Press)	Freedom Now! Forgotten Photographs of the Civil Rights Struggle by Martin A. Berger (University of California Press)	How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights Movement by Ruth Feldstein (Oxford University Press)
I’ll Take You There: Mavis Staples, the Staple Singers, and the March up Freedom’s Highway by Greg Kot (Scribner)	Postmodernism, Traditional Cultural Forms, and African-American Narratives by W. Lawrence Hogue (State University of New York Press)	Prepared for a Purpose: The Inspiring True Story of How One Woman Saved an Atlanta School Under Siege by Antoinette Tuff (Bethany House Publishers)
Racisms: From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century by Francisco Bethencourt (Princeton University Press)	Reproducing Racism: How Everyday Choices Lock In White Advantage by Daria Roithmayr (New York University Press)	Savage Portrayals: Race, Media and the Central Park Jogger Story by Natalie Byfield (Temple University Press)
Slavery’s Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons by Sylviane A. Diouf (New York University Press)	The Scattered Family: Parenting, African Migrants, and Global Inequality by Cati Coe (University of Chicago Press)	The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America’s Most Progressive Era by Douglas R. Egerton (Bloomsbury Press)