Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African American Scholars

January 21, 2016

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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Brown v. Board and the Transformation of American Culture: Education and the South in the Age of Desegregation by Ben Keppel (Louisiana State University Press)	Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States by Carl Zimring (New York University Press)	Con Job: How Democrats Gave Us Crime, Sanctuary Cities, Abortion Profiteering, and Racial Division by Crystal Wright (Regnery Publishing)
Cultural Diversity and Education, Sixth Edition by James A. Banks (Routledge)	Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul by Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (Crown Publishers)	Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era by Thomas C. Leonard (Princeton University Press)
Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Diversity, and Faculty Gatekeeping by Julie R. Posselt (Harvard University Press)	The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America by Ethan Michaeli (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)	The Land Shall Be Deluged in Blood: A New History of the Nat Turner Revolt by Patrick H. Breen (Oxford University Press)
The Oxford Handbook of Diversity in Organizations edited by Regine Bendl et al. (Oxford University Press)	The Portland Black Panthers: Empowering Albina and Remaking a City by Lucas N.W. Burke and Judson L. Jeffries (University of Washington Press)	The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome by Alondra Nelson (Beacon Press)