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. Click on any of the titles for more information or to purchase through Amazon.com.

Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century by Marc Matera (University of California Press)	Health in the City: Race, Poverty, and the Negotiation of Women’s Health in New York City, 1915-1930 by Tanya Hart (New York University Press)	Jim Crow’s Last Stand: Nonunanimous Criminal Jury Verdicts in Louisiana by Thomas Aiello (Louisiana State University Press)
Jimmie Lee and James: Two Lives, Two Deaths, and the Movement That Changed America by Steve Fiffer and Adar Cohen (Regan Arts Publishing)	Letters of the Law: Race and the Fantasy of Colorblindness in American Law by Sora Han (Stanford Law Books)	Managing Diversity and Inclusion: An International Perspective edited by Jawad Syed and Mustafa Ozbilgin (SAGE Publications)
Metropolitan Jews: Politics, Race, and Religion in Postwar Detroit by Lila Corwin Berman (University of Chicago Press)	The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind edited by Claudia Rankine et al. (Fence Books)	Sight Unseen: Gender and Race Through Blind Eyes by Ellyn Kaschak (Columbia University Press)
The Black Atlantic Reconsidered: Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History, and the Presence of the Past by Winfried Simmering (McGill-Queen’s University Press)	The Little Rock Crisis: What Desegregation Politics Says About Us by Ravi K. Perry and D. LaRouth Perry (Palgrave Macmillan)	We Could Not Fail: The First African Americans in the Space Program by Richard Paul and Steven Moss (University of Texas Press)