Recent Books 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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Bring the War Home:
The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America

by Kathleen Belew
(Harvard University Press)

Religion Around Billie Holiday
by Tracy Fessenden
(Pennsylvania State University Press)

Slavery Unseen:
Sex, Power, and Violence in Brazilian History

by Lamonte Aidoo
(Duke University Press)

The Jazz Pilgrimage of Gerald Wilson
by Steven Loza
(University Press of Mississippi)

The Men of Mobtown:
Policing Baltimore in the Age of Slavery and Emancipation

by Adam Malka
(University of North Carolina Press)

Things That Make White People Uncomfortable
by Michael Bennett and Dave Zirin
(Haymarket Books)

White Music:
The Barry White Story

by Tom Rubython
(Myrtle Press)

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