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 Males and the U.S. Justice System of Marginalization: A National Tragedy by Floyd Weatherspoon (Palgrave Pivot)	Black Masculinity in the Obama Era: Outliers of Society by William T. Hoston (Palgrave Macmillan)	Confronting Visuality in Multi-Ethnic Women’s Writing by Angela Laffen (Palgrave Macmillan)
Diversifying the Teacher Workforce: Preparing and Retaining Highly Effective Teachers edited by Christine E. Sleeter et al. (Routledge)	Emilie Davis’s Civil War: The Diaries of a Free Black Woman in Philadelphia, 1863-1865 edited by Judith Giesberg et al. (Pennsylvania State University Press)	Home With Hip Hop Feminism: Performances in Communication and Culture by Aisha S. Durham (Peter Lang International)
Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality by Danielle Allen (W.W. Norton)	Race and the Lifecourse: Readings from the Intersection of Race, Ethnicity, and Age edited by Diditi Mitra and Joyce Weil (Palgrave Mamillan)	Race and the Obama Phenomenon: The Vision of a More Perfect Multiracial Union edited by G. Reginald Daniel and Hettie V. Williams (University Press of Mississippi)
The Bigot: Why Prejudice Persists by Stephen Eric Bonner (Yale University Press)	The Oxford Handbook of African American Theology edited by Katie G. Cannon and Anthony B. Pinn (Oxford University Press)	The Rising Tide of Color: Race, State Violence, and Radical Movements Across the Pacific edited by Moon-Ho Jung (University of Washington Press)
The Prince of Jockeys: The Life of Isaac Burns Murphy by Pellom McDaniels III (University Press of Kentucky)	Toni Morrison: Memory and Meaning edited by Adrienne Lanier Seward and Justine Tally (University Press of Mississippi)	Women Artists of the Harlem Renaissance edited by Amy Helene Kirschke (University Press of Mississippi)