Category Archives: awards

January 10, 2020

Slavery at Sea by Sowande’ Mustakeem Awarded Dred Scott Freedom Award

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We are pleased to announce that Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage by Sowande’ M. Mustakeem has won the Dred Scott Freedom Award in the category Historical Literary Excellence from the Dred Scott Heritage Foundation. The award … Continue reading →

December 11, 2019

Spirituals and the Birth of a Black Entertainment Industry awarded AMS Music in American Culture Award

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We are pleased to announce Spirituals and the Birth of a Black Entertainment Industry by Sandra Jean Graham won the Music in American Culture Award (outstanding scholarship in music of the United States) from the American Musicological Society (AMS). The … Continue reading →

December 9, 2019

Disruption in Detroit named a 2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

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We are pleased to announce Disruption in Detroit: Autoworkers and the Elusive Postwar Boom by Daniel J. Clark was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title in 2019.  This award recognizes outstanding works for excellence in presentation and scholarship, and significance … Continue reading →

November 26, 2019

The World in a City Awarded the Shelley Fisher Fishkin Prize

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We are pleased to announce The World in a City: Multiethnic Radicalism in Early Twentieth-Century Los Angeles by David M. Struthers won the Shelley Fisher Fishkin Prize for International Scholarship in Transnational American Studies from the International Committee of the … Continue reading →

November 25, 2019

Gendered Resistance Awarded an International AAHGS Book Award

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We are pleased to announce Gendered Resistance: Women, Slavery, and the Legacy of Margaret Garner, edited by Mary E. Frederickson and Delores M. Walters has won an International AAHGS Book Award from the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society (AAHGS). The … Continue reading →

November 13, 2019

NWSA/ University of Illinois Press 2019 First Book Prize Winner

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NWSA and the University of Illinois Press are pleased to announce the winner of the 2019 First Book Prize!  Shamara Wyllie Alhassan, Brown University Re-Membering the Maternal Goddess: Rastafari Women’s Intellectual History and Activism in the Pan-African World NWSA will … Continue reading →

October 29, 2019

In Search of Belonging Awarded Bonnie Ritter Outstanding Feminist Book Award from NCA

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We are pleased to announce that In Search of Belonging: Latinas, Media, and Citizenship by Jillian M. Báez has won the Bonnie Ritter Outstanding Feminist Book Award from the Feminist & Women Studies Division of the National Communication Association. The … Continue reading →

October 28, 2019

Mascot Nation Awarded Best Book Award from American Studies Division of NCA

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We are pleased to announce that Mascot Nation: The Controversy over Native American Representations in Sports by Andrew C. Billings and Jason Edward Black has won the Best Book Award from the American Studies Division of the National Communication Association. … Continue reading →

October 18, 2019

Syrian and Lebanise Patrícios in São Paulo winner of the Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award

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We are pleased to announce that Syrian and Lebanese Patrícios in São Paulo: From the Levant to Brazil by Oswaldo Truzzi and translated by Ramon J. Stern has won the Evelyn Shakir Non-Fiction Award from the Arab American National Museum. … Continue reading →

September 9, 2019

Andrew C. Billings and Jason Edward Black win Outstanding Book Award for Mascot Nation

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We are pleased to announce that Mascot Nation: The Controversy over Native American Representations in Sports by Andrew C. Billings and Jason Edward Black won the Outstanding Book Award from the Communication and Sport Division of the National Communication Association. … Continue reading →