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 Men in Higher Education: A Guide to Ensuring Student Success by J. Luke Wood and Robert T. Palmer (Routledge)	Black Prophetic Fire by Cornel West (Beacon Press)	Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks (Routledge)
From Slave Abuse to Hate Crime: The Criminalization of Racial Violence in American History by Ely Aaronson (Cambridge University Press)	Materialities of Ritual in the Black Atlantic by edited Akinwumi Ogundiran and Paula Saunders (Indiana University Press)	Staging Migrations Toward an American West: From Ida B. Wells to Rhodessa Jones by Marta Effinger-Crichlow (University Press of Colorado)
The Logbooks: Connecticut’s Slave Ships and Human Memory by Anne Farrow (Wesleyan University Press)	The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea by Robert Wald Sussman (Harvard University Press)	William Wells Brown: An African American Life by Ezra Greenspan (W.W. Norton & Co.)