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 Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life by Allyson Hobbs (Harvard University Press)	A Step Toward Brown v. Board of Education: Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher and Her Fight to End Segregation by Cheryl Elizabeth Brown Wattley (University of Oklahoma Press)	Backwater Blues: The Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American Imagination by Richard M. Mizelle Jr. (University of Minnesota Press)
Black Women of the Harlem Renaissance Era edited by Lean’tin L. Bracks and Jessie Carney Smith (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)	Confronting Suburban School Resegregation in California by Clayton A. Hurd (University of Pennsylvania Press)	Conversations with God: Two Centuries of Prayers by African Americans by James A. Washington (Amistad)
Envisioning Freedom: Cinema and the Building of Modern Black Life by Cara Caddoo (Harvard University Press)	On Highway 61: Music, Race, and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom by Dennis McNally (Counterpoint)	Patroons and Periaguas: Enslaved Watermen and Watercraft of the Lowcountry by Lynn B. Harris (University of South Carolina Press)
Penn Center: A History Preserved by Orville Vernon Burton (University of Georgia Press)	Racial Reckoning: Prosecuting America’s Civil Rights Murders by Renee C. Romano (Harvard University Press)	Stepping Into Zion: Hatzaad Harishon, Black Jews, and the Remaking of Jewish Identity by Janice W. Fernheimer (University of Alabama Press)
The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era by Michael A. Ross (Oxford University Press)	The Ragged Road to Abolition: Slavery and Freedom in New Jersey, 1775-1865 by James J. Gigantino II (University of Pennsylvania Press)	Tracing Southern Storytelling in Black and White by Sarah Gilbreath Ford (University of Alabama Press)