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 Crisis of Leadership and the Role of Citizens in Black America: Leaders of the New School by Stephen C.W. Graves (Lexington Books)	Answering the Call: An Autobiography of the Modern Struggle to End Racial Discrimination in America by Nathaniel R. Jones (The New Press)	Blood Sugar: Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America by Anthony Ryan Hatch (University of Minnesota Press)
Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence edited by Chad Williams et al. (University of Georgia Press)	Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader edited by Nada Elia et al. (Duke University Press)	From Slave to Statesman: The Life of Educator, Editor, and Civil Rights Activist Willis M. Carter of Virginia by Robert Heinrich and Deborah Harding (Louisiana State University Press)
Jackie Robinson: An Integrated Life by J. Christopher Schutz (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers)	Kenneth Kaunda, the United States and Southern Africa by Andy DeRoche (Bloomsbury Academic)	Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues edited by Paul Devlin (University of Minnesota Press)
Nation as Grand Narrative: The Nigerian Press and the Politics of Meaning by Wale Adebanwi (University of Rochester Press)	Race, Class, and Gentrification in Brooklyn: A View from the Street by Jerome Krase and Judith N. DeSena (Lexington Books)	Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism by GerShun Avilez (University of Illinois Press)
Religion in the Kitchen: Cooking, Talking, and the Making of Black Atlantic Traditions by Elizabeth Perez (New York University Press)	Spirituality Research Studies in Higher Education edited by Terence Hicks (University Press of America)	Vodou in the Haitian Experience: A Black Atlantic Perspective edited by Celucien L. Joseph and Nixon S. Cleophat (Lexington Books)