Recent Books of Interest to African American Scholars

Filed in Books on May 18, 2017

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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Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women by Susan Burton and Cari Lynn (The New Press)	Black and Blue: Inside the Divide Between the Police and Black America by Jeff Pegues (Prometheus Books)	Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy by Alisha Gaines (University of North Carolina Press)
Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom by Condoleezza Rice (Twelve Books)	My Soul Looks Back: A Memoir by Jessica B. Harris (Scribner)	Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama by David Garrow (William Morrow)
Seattle in Black and White: The Congress of Racial Equality and the Fight for Equal Opportunity by Joan Singler et al. (University of Washington Press)	The Labor of Faith: Gender and Power in Black Apostolic Pentecostalism by Judith Casselberry (Duke University Press)	The Song and the Silence: A Story About Family, Race, and What Was Revealed in a Small Town in the Mississippi Delta While Searching for Booker Wright by Yvette Johnson (Atria Books)
Thinking in Public: Faith, Secular Humanism, and Development in Jacques Roumain by Celucien L. Joseph (Pickwick Publications)	Whispers of Cruel Wrongs: The Correspondence of Louisa Jacobs and Her Circle, 1879-1911 edited by Mary Maillard (University of Wisconsin Press)	White Out: Understanding White Privilege and Dominance in the Modern Age by Christopher S. Collins and Alexander Jun (Peter Lang International Publishers)