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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Abandoning the Black Hero: Sympathy and Privacy in the Postwar African American White-Life Novel by John C. Charles (Rutgers University Press)	Ain’t Scared of Your Jail: Arrest, Imprisonment, and the Civil Rights Movement by Zoe A. Colley (University Press of Florida)	Awakening to Race: Individualism and Social Consciousness in America by Jack Turner (University of Chicago Press)
Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin Jr. (University of California Press)	Chosen People: The Rise of American Black Israelite Religions by Jacob S. Dorman (Oxford University Press)	Conservatism in the Black Community: To the Right and Misunderstood by Angela K. Lewis (Routledge)
Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson by Barbara Ransby (Yale University Press)	Landmarks in African American History edited by Michael V. Uschan (Lucent Books)	Mojo Workin’: The Old African American Hoodoo System by Katrina Hazzard-Donald (University of Illinois Press)
Off the Record: Conversations with African American and Brazilian Women Musicians by LaShonda Katrice Barnett (Scarecrow Press)	Presenting Oprah Winfrey, Her Films, and African American Literature by Tara T. Green (Palgrave Macmillan)	Tragic No More: Mixed-Race Women and the Nexus of Sex and Celebrity by Caroline A. Streeter (University of Massachusetts Press)