Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars

Filed in Books on October 6, 2016

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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Abidjan USA: Music, Dance, and Mobility in the Lives of Four Ivorian Immigrants by Daniel B. Reed (Indiana University Press)	Begin With the Past: Building the National Museum of African American History and Culture by Mabel O. Wilson (Smithsonian Books)	Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination by Jack Hamilton (Harvard University Press)
Lynched: The Power of Memory in a Culture of Terror by Angela D. Sims (Baylor University Press)	Sing for Your Life: A Story of Race, Music, and Family by Daniel Bergner (Lee Boudreaux Books)	The Birth of a Nation: Nat Turner and the Making of a Movement by Nate Parker (Atria)
The End of Days: African American Religion and Politics in the Age of Emancipation by Matthew Harper (University of North Carolina Press)	The Fixers: Devolution, Development, and Civil Society in Newark, 1960-1990 by Julia Rabig (University of Chicago Press)	The Riot Report and the News: How the Kerner Commission Changed Media Coverage of Black America by Thomas J. Hrach (University of Massachusetts Press)