Recent Books That May Be of Interest to African American Scholars

Filed in Books on October 17, 2012

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. Click on any of the titles for more information or to purchase through Amazon.com.

A History of Prejudice: Race, Caste, and Difference in India and the United States by Gyanendra Pandey (Cambridge University Press)	Against the Closet: Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race by Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman (Duke University Press)	Blacks and Whites in Christian America: How Racial Discrimination Shapes Religious Convictions by Jason E. Shelton and Michael O. Emerson (New York University Press)
Clementine Hunter: Her Life and Art by Art Shiver and Tom Whitehead (Louisiana State University Press)	Documenting Desegregation: Racial and Gender Segregation in Private Sector Employment Since the Civil Rights Act by Kevin Stainback and Donald Tomaskovic-Devey (Russell Sage Foundation)	Duty Drive: The Plight of North Alabama’s African Americans During the Civil War by Peggy Allen Towns (AuthorHouse)
Prigg v. Pennsylvania: Slavery, the Supreme Court, and the Ambivalent Constitution by H. Robert Baker (University Press of Kansas)	The Resegregation of Suburban Schools: A Hidden Crisis in American Education by Erica Frankenberg and Gary Orfield (Harvard Education Press)	The Rise to Respectability: Race, Religion, and the Church of God in Christ by Calvin White Jr. (University of Arkansas Press)