Recent Books 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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Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil by Christen A. Smith (University of Illinois Press)	America’s Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America by Jim Wallis (Brazos Press)	Black Women’s Portrayals on Reality Television: The New Sapphire edited by Donnetrice C. Allison (Lexington Books)
Drug Use Trajectories Among Minority Youth edited by Yonette F. Thomas and LeShawndra N. Price (Springer)	Gender and the Jubilee: Black Freedom and the Reconstruction of Citizenship in Civil War Missouri by Sharon Romeo (University of Georgia Press)	Radical Humanism and Generous Tolerance: Soyinka on Religion and Human Solidarity by Celucien L. Joseph (Hope Outreach Productions)
SoulStirrers: Black Art and the Neo-Ancestral Impulse by H. Ike Okafor-Newsum (University Press of Mississippi)	Soul Mates: Religion, Sex, Love, and Marriage Among African Americans and Latinos by Bradford Wilcox and Nicholas H. Wolfing (Oxford University Press)	The Mulatta Concubine: Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and Desire in the Black Transatlantic by Lisa Ze Winters (University of Georgia Press)