Recent Books That May Be 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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African American Caregivers: Seasons of Care Practice and Policy Perspectives for Social Workers and Human Service Professionals edited by Sandra Crewe and Charnetta Gading-Cole (Nova Science Publishing)	Brooklyn’s Promised Land: The Free Black Community of Weeksville, New York by Judith Wellman (New York University Press)	Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces of a Man by Marcus Baram (St. Martin’s Press)
Jim Crow: A Postmortem Political Analysis by Michael E. Orok (AuthorHouse)	Legacy of the Lash: Race and Corporal Punishment in the Brazilian Navy and the Atlantic World by Zachary R. Morgan (Indiana University Press)	Sweet Land of Liberty? The African-American Struggle for Civil Rights in the Twentieth Century by Robert Cook (Routledge)