We are pleased to announce that four University of Illinois Press books have been named winners of the the Choice Outstanding Academic Titles, 2024 Award:
- Mean Girl Feminism: How White Feminists Gaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss by Kim Hong Nguyen
- Playful Protest: The Political Work of Joy in Latinx Media by Kristie Soares
- Reparations and Reparatory Justice: Past, Present, and Future edited by Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, Mary Frances Berry, and V. P. Franklin
- To Advance the Race: Black Women’s Higher Education from the Antebellum Era to the 1960s by Linda M. Perkins
For reference, the editors of this award base their selections on the following criteria:
- excellence in presentation and scholarship
- significance of their contribution to the field
- originality or uniqueness as an essential treatment of their subject
- significance and value in building undergraduate library collections.
Congratulations to these winning titles!