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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Black Celebrity, Racial Politics, and the Press: Framing Dissent by Sarah J. Jackson (Routledge)	Glow: The Autobiography of Rick James by Rick James with David Ritz (Atria Books)	Historically Black: Imagining Community in a Black Historic District by Mieka Brand Polanco (New York University Press)
Post-Soul Satire: Black Identity After Civil Rights edited by Derek C. Maus and James J. Donahue (University Press of Mississippi)	Racial Formation in the United States by Michael Omi and Howard Winant (Routledge)	Religion and Inequality in America: Research and Theory on Religion’s Role in Stratification edited by Lisa A. Keister and Darren E. Sherkat (Cambridge University Press)
That Pride of Race and Character: The Roots of Jewish Benevolence in the Jim Crow South by Caroline E. Light (New York University Press)	The Path to the Greater, Freer, Truer World: Southern Civil Rights and Anticolonialism, 1937-1955 by Lindsey R. Swindall (University Press of Florida)	Tightrope: A Racial Journey to the Age of Obama by Gail Garfield (Rowman & Littlefield)
Uninvited Neighbors: African Americans in Silicon Valley, 1769-1990 by Herbert G. Ruffin II (University of Oklahoma Press)	Urban Nightlife: Entertaining Race, Class, and Culture in Public Space by Reuben A. Buford May (Rutgers University Press)	Womanist and Black Feminist Responses to Tyler Perry’s Productions edited by LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant et al. (Palgrave Macmillan)