Weekly Book List, October 5, 2009

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AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES

Jazz Religion, the Second Line, and Black New Orleans by Richard Brent Turner (Indiana University Press; 182 pages; $55 hardcover, $21.95 paperback). Explores the relationship between jazz and religion in the funerary and other street parades of New Orleans.

ANTHROPOLOGY

The Caste Question: Dalits and the Politics of Modern India by Anupama Rao (University of California Press; 392 pages; $65 hardcover,

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