2007 GUSTAVUS MYERS BOOK AWARDS
HONORABLE MENTION

CONGRATULATIONS TO THOSE AUTHORS AND BOOKS RECEIVING HONORABLE MENTION
IN CONSIDERATION FOR THE 2007 MYERS OUTSTANDING BOOK AWARDS



     

ABDO, GENEIVE

Mecca and Main Street: Muslim Life in America After 9/11, Oxford University Press 2006

Muslims: Social Conditions


ANDERSON, M.T.

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume 1: The Pox Party, Candlewick Press 2006

Slavery: Young Adult Fiction; African Americans: Social Conditions


BACON, DAVID

Communities Without Borders: Images and Voices from the World of Migration, ILR Press 2006

Immigrants: Social Conditions


BACON, JACQUELINE

Freedom's Journal: The First African-American Newspaper, Lexington Books/Rowman/Littlefield 2007

African Americans: Media: History


BLUM, EDWARD J.

W.E.B. DuBois: American Prophet, University of Pennsylvania Press

Biography: Religious: Race Relations


BUDHOS, MARINA

Ask Me No Questions, Ginee Seo Books, Atheneum/Simon & Schuster 2006

Immigrants: Social Control/Conditions: Young Adults


CHACON, JUSTICE AKERS; DAVIS, MIKE

No One Is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the US-Mexico Border, Haymarket Books 2006

Immigration


CHAI, MAY-LEE

Hapa Girl: A Memoir, Temple University Press 2007

Multiracial


CHRISTIANSE, YVETTE

Unconfessed: A Novel, Other Press 2006

Slavery: South Africa: Resistance: Imprisonment


COOK, KERRY MAX

Chasing Justice: My Story of Freeing Myself After Two Decades on Death Row for a Crime I Didn't Commit, William Morrow 2007

Incarceration: Death Penalty


COOK-LYNN, ELIZABETH

Notebooks of Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, University of Arizona Press 2007

Indigenous: Social Conditions: Poetry


EATON, SUSAN

The Children in Room E4: American Education on Trial, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2006

Discrimination: Education


ESPADA, MARTIN

The Republic of Poetry: Poems, W.W. Norton 2006

Poetry: Justice


FERNANDES, DEEPA

Targeted: Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration, Seven Stories Press 2007

Immigration Policy: White Supremacy


GILMORE, RUTH WILSON

Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California, University of California Press 2007

Criminal Justice


GREENFIELD, ELOIS; GILCHRIST, JAN SPIVEY

When The Horses Ride By: Children in the Times of War, Lee & Low Books 2006

War: Poetry: Juvenile Literature


GUBAR, SUSAN

Rooms of Our Own, University of Illinois Press 2006

Feminism: Theory; Gender Studies


HACKER, RANDI

Life As I Knew It, Simon Pulse/Simon & Schuster 2006

Youth: Disability: Death


HALLETT, MICHAEL A.

Private Prisons in America: A Critical Race Perspective, University of Illinois Press 2006

Criminal Justice; Prisons: Racism


HOLCOMB, GARY EDWARD

Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance, University of Florida Press

African Americans: Social Conditions: Art


HOPKINSON, DEBORAH; JENKINS, LEONARD (Illustrator)

Sweet Land of Liberty, Peachtree Press

Race Relations


JONES, KIMBERLY K.

Sand Dollar Summer, Margaret K. McElderry Books/Simon & Schuster

Indigenous; Indians of North America; Adolescence: Teen Lit


JOSEPH, PENIEL

Waiting 'Til The Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America, Henry Holt & Company

Black Power; African Americans: Social Conditions


KADOHATA, CYNTHIA

Weedflower, Atheneum for Teens

Japanese Americans: Internment: Fiction; Indigenous: Japanese American


KOPPELMAN, ANDREW

Same Sex, Different States: When Same-Sex marriages Cross State Lines, Yale University Press

Gay/Lesbian Rights: Marriage


KROPP, PHOEBE S.

California Vieja: Culture and Memory in a Modern American Place, University of California Press

Mexican/Indian/Anglo Relations


LESTER, JULIUS

Time's Memory, Farrar, Straus & Giroux

African Americans: Slavery: Fiction


MACEK, STEVE

Urban Nightmares: The Media, The Right, and the Moral Panic Over The City, University of Minnesota Press

Public Policy: Urban


MARSO, LORI JO

Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity: The Lives and Work of Intellectual Women, Taylor and Francis

Feminism: Intellectual


MILES, TIYA; HOLLAND, SHARON P.; Eds.

Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country, Duke University Press

African Americans: indigenous: Social Relations


NICHOLS, JOHN

The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders' Cure for Royalism, The New Press

Government; Constitutional Law


NIKOLA-LISA, W.; QUALLS, SEAN (Illustrator)

How We Are Smart, Lee & Low

Government; Constitutional Law


PIVEN, FRANCES FOX

Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America, Rowman & Littlefield

Activism, Dissent, Organizing


RITTERHOUSE, JENNIFER

Growing Up Jim Crow: How Black and White Southern Children Learned Race, University of North Carolina Press

Race Identity; Race Relations


SCHAFFNER, LAURIE

Girls in Trouble With The Law, Rutgers University Press

Juvenile Delinquency: Gender


SCHERTLE, ALICE; ADDISON, KENNETH (Illustrator)

We, Lee and Low

Evolution: Children's Book


SCOTT-DIXON, KRISTA, Ed.

Trans/Forming Feminisms: Transfeminist Voices Speak Out, Sumach Press

Transgendered: Feminism; Gender


SOUTH END PRESS

Race, and the State of The Nation

Racism; Inequality


STACK, RICHARD A.

Dead Wrong: Violence, Vengeance & The Victims of Capital Punishment, Praeger

Death Penalty


STRAIGHT, SUSAN

A Million Nightingales, Pantheon

Slavery: Women: Fiction


SULLIVAN, SHANNON

Revealing Whiteness: The Unconcscious Habits of Racial Privilege, Indiana University Press

Whiteness


TANIGUCHI, YUKO

The Ocean in the Closet: A Novel, Coffee House Press

Japanese Americans: Social Conditions: Fiction


TATUM, BEVERLY DANIEL

Can We Talk About Race? And Other Conversations In An Era Of School Resegregation

Racism: Education


THOMAS, MICHAEL

Man Gone Down, Black Cat/Grove/Atlantic

Racism: Fiction


WISE, BILL; FARNSWORTH, BILL (Illustrator)

Louis Sockalexis: Native American Baseball Pioneer, Lee and Low

Sports: Indigenous: Biography: Juvenile Literature


ZOLBERG, ARISTIDE R.

A Nation By Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America, Russell Sage/Harvard University Press

Immigration


ZUBERI, DAN

Differences That Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada, Cornell University Press Inequality: Canada: US; Poverty; Working Class


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