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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Autobiography in Black and Brown: Ethnic Identity in Richard Wright and Richard Rodriguez by Michael Nieto Garcia (University of New Mexico Press)	Black: A Celebration of a Culture by Deborah Willis (Skyhorse Publishing)	Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era by Dan Berger (University of North Carolina Press)
Esotericism in African American Religious Experience: "There Is a Mystery" edited by Stephen C. Finley at al. (Brill Academic Publishing)	Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature by Trudier Harris (University of Alabama Press)	Poitier Revisited: Reconsidering a Black Icon in the Obama Age edited by Ian Gregory Strachan and Mia Mask (Bloomsbury Academic)
Preaching on Wax: The Phonograph and the Shaping of Modern African American Religion by Lerone A. Martin (New York University Press)	The Night Malcolm X Spoke at the Oxford Union: A Transatlantic Story of Antiracist Protest by Stephen Tuck (University of California Press)	Tyrannicide: Forging an American Law of Slavery in Revolutionary South Carolina and Massachusetts by Emily Blanck (University of Georgia Press)