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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African American Religions, 1500-2000: Colonialism, Democracy, and Freedom by Sylvester A. Johnson (Cambridge University Press)	Between Fetters and Freedom: African American Baptists Since Emancipation by Edward R. Crowther and Keith Harper (Mercer University Press)	Black Knowledges/Black Struggles: Essays in Critical Epistemology edited by Jason R. Ambroise and Sabine Broeck (Liverpool University Press)
Black Print Unbound: The Christian Recorder, African American Literature, and Periodical Culture by Eric Gardner (Oxford University Press)	Charleston in Black and White: Race and Power in the South After the Civil Rights Movement by Steve Estes (University of North Carolina Press)	City of Islands: Caribbean Intellectuals in New York by Tammy L. Brown (University Press of Mississippi)
Despite the Best Intentions: How Racial Inequality Thrives in Good Schools by Amanda E. Lewis and John B. Diamond (Oxford University Press)	Dichotomy of the Black Diaspora by Lee Catubay Paul (Archway Publishing)	Educating African American Students: And How Are the Children? by Gloria Swindler Boutte (Routledge)
Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures by L.H. Stallings (University of Illinois Press)	Grounds of Engagement: Apartheid-Era African-American and South African Writing by Stephane Robolin (University of Illinois Press)	Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African American Suffering and Death by Courtney R. Baker (University of Illinois Press)
Leading for Change: Race, Intimacy and Leadership on Divided University Campuses by Jonathan Jansen (Routledge)	Pillars of Cloud and Fire: The Politics of Exodus in African American Biblical Interpretation by Herbert Marbury (New York University Press)	Privilege and Prejudice: The Life of a Black Pioneer by Clifton R. Wharton Jr. (Michigan State University Press)
Race and Popular Fantasy Literature: Habits of Whiteness by Helen Young (Routlege)	The Future of Whiteness by Linda Martin Alcoff (Polity)	The Power to Die: Slavery and Suicide in British North America by Terri L. Snyder (University of Chicago Press)
The Roughest Riders: The Untold Story of the Black Soldiers in the Spanish-American War by Jerome Tuccille (Chicago Review Press)	The Spike Lee Brand: A Study of Documentary Filmmaking by Delphine Retort (State University of New York Press)	This Is Not Dixie: Racist Violence in Kansas, 1861-1927 by Brent M.S. Campney (University of Illinois Press)