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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A Chance for Change: Head Start and Mississippi’s Black Freedom Struggle by Crystal R. Sanders (University of North Carolina Press)	African American Writing: A Literary Approach by Werner Sollors (Temple University Press)	Are All the Women Still White? Rethinking Race, Expanding Feminisms by Janell Hobson (State University of New York Press)
Black Lives and Sacred Humanity: Toward an African American Religious Naturalism by Carol Wayne White (Fordham University Press)	Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America’s Largest Criminal Court by Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve (Stanford Law Books)	Distant Freedom: St Helena and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1840-1872 by Andrew Pearson (Liverpool University Press)
Faulkner and the Black Literatures of the Americas edited by Jay Watson and James G. Thomas (University Press of Mississippi)	Hanging Bridge: Racial Violence and America’s Civil Rights Century by Jason Morgan Ward (Oxford University Press)	No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity by Sarah Haley (University of North Carolina Press)
Race and the Death Penalty: The Legacy of McCleskey v. Kemp edited by David P. Keyes and R.J. Maratea (Lynne Rienner Publishers)	Skin Bleaching in Black Atlantic Zones: Shade Shifters by Shirley Anne Tate (Palgrave Pivot)	The School-to-Prison Pipeline: Education, Discipline, and Racialized Double Standards by Nancy A. Heitzeg (Praeger)
The Voyage of the Slave Ship Hare: A Journey Into Captivity From Sierra Leone to South Carolina by Sean M. Kelley (University of North Carolina Press)	Travel & See: Black Diaspora Art Practices Since the 1980s by Kobena Mercer (Duke University Press)	Trends in African Studies edited by Jacob U. Gordon and Stephen Owoahene-Acheampong (Nova Science Publishers)