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. Click on any of the titles for more information or to purchase through Amazon. As an Amazon Associate, JBHE will earn a fraction of revenue from qualifying purchases.

Here are the latest selections:

Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed by Dashka Slater (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)	Affirmative Action and Black Student Success: The Pursuit of a “Critical Mass” at Historically White Universities by David J. Luke (Routledge)	Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC’s Racial Wealth Gap by Tanya Maria Golash-Boza (University of California Press)
The Color of Asylum: The Racial Politics of Safe Haven in Brazil by Katherine Jensen (University of Chicago Press)	Dear Department Chair: Letters from Black Women Leaders to the Next Generation edited by Stephanie Y. Evans et al. (Wayne State University Press)	The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: and the Path to a Shared American Future by Robert P. Jones (Simon & Schuster)
Life Under the Baobab Tree: Africana Studies and Religion in a Transitional Age edited by Kenneth N. Ngwa et al. (Fordham University Press)	Racial and Ethnic Residential Segregation Across the United States: New Approaches to Understanding Trends and Patterns by Amber R. Crowell and Mark A. Fossett (Springer)	Slavery, Mobility, and Networks in Nineteenth-Century Cuba edited by Daylet Dominguez and Victor Goldgel Carballo (Routledge)
True Grace: A Black Woman’s Journey to Save Her Family by Karen E. Osborne (Black Rose)	Urban Specters: The Everyday Harms of Racial Capitalism by Sarah Mayorga (University of North Carolina Press)	We Pursue Our Magic: A Spiritual History of Black Feminism by Marina Magloire (University of North Carolina Press)