Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
| "The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
recognize books that have made important contributions to our
understanding of racism or our appreciation of the rich diversity of
human cultures. The awards, which are administered by The Cleveland
Foundation, are given out each year." |
Fiction or Poetry:
The Dew
Breaker, by Edwidge Danticat
M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A :
Poems, by A. Van Jordan
Nonfiction:
Unforgivable
Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, by Geoffrey C. Ward
Fiction or Poetry:
The Known World, by Edward P. Jones
Nonfiction:
Generations of
Captivity, A History of African-American Slaves, by Ira Berlin
Random Family:
Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx, by Adrian
Nicole LeBlanc
Fiction or Poetry:
The Emperor of
Ocean Park, by Stephen L. Carter
World Hotel,
by Reetika Vazirani
Nonfiction:
A Problem for
Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, by Samantha Power
Fiction or Poetry:
John Henry Days, by Colson Whitehead
Nonfiction:
Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones, by Quincy Jones
Vernon Can Read!
: A Memoir, by Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. with Annette Gordon-Reed.
Fiction or Poetry:
Rope Burns:
Stories from the Corner, by F.X. Toole
Nonfiction: The Fight for Equality and the
American Century, 1919-1963, by David Levering Lewis
Fiction or Poetry:
A Gesture Life,
by Chang-rae Lee
Nonfiction: Out of Place : A Memoir, by
Edward Said
Fiction or Poetry:
Cloudsplitter,
by Russell Banks
Nonfiction: Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of
the Movement, by Congressman John Lewis
Fiction or Poetry: Always Outnumbered, Always
Outgunned, by Walter Mosley
Nonfiction: The Black Notebooks : an interior
journey, by Toi Derricotte
Fiction or Poetry:
The Color of Water,
by James McBride
Nonfiction: The
Autobiography of My Mother, by Jamaica Kincaid
Fiction or Poetry:
All Souls' Rising,
by Madison Smartt Bell
Nonfiction: Amazing Grace : the lives of
children and the conscience of a nation, by Jonathan Kozol
Fiction or Poetry:
Sweetbitter,
by Reginald Gibbons
Nonfiction:
Parallel Time:
Growing Up in Black and White, by Brent Staples
The Science and
Politics of Racial Research, by William H. Tucker
Fiction or Poetry:
The Latin Deli :
prose and poetry, by Judith Ortiz Cofer
Nonfiction:
W.E.B. Du Bois :
biography of a race, 1868-1919, by David Levering Lewis
A Different
Mirror
: a history of multicultural America, by Ronald Takaki
Fiction or Poetry:
Woman Hollering
Creek and Other Stories, by Sandra Cisneros
Nonfiction:
The Civilization
of the Goddess, by Marija Gimbutas
In My Father's
House : Africa in the philosophy of culture, by Kwame Anthony
Appiah
Fiction or Poetry:
The Homeplace :
poems, by Marilyn Nelson Waniek
Nonfiction:
Lessons and
Legacies: The Meaning of the Holocaust in a Changing World,
Peter Hayes, ed.
The IQ Mythology:
Class, Race, Gender and Inequality, by Elaine Mensh & Harry
Mensh
Praying for
Sheetrock : a work of nonfiction, by Melissa Faye Greene
Special Achievement Award:
Invisible Man,
by Ralph Ellison
Nonfiction:
Gunnar Myrdal and
America's Conscience: Social Engineering and Racial Liberalism,
1938-1987, by Walter A. Jackson
The Arrogance of
Faith: Christianity and Race in America from the Colonial Era to the
Twentieth Century, by Forrest G. Wood
African Ark:
People and Ancient Cultures of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa,
by Carol Beckwith & Angela Fisher
Fiction or Poetry:
Women of Plums:
Poems in the Voices of Slave Women, by Dolores Kendrick
Nonfiction: The Image of the Black in Western
Art: From the American Revolution to World War I, by Hugh Honour
Nonfiction:
The Schomburg
Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers, by Henry
Louis Gates Jr.
Dreamings : The
Art of Aboriginal Australia, by Peter Sutton
Parting the
Waters : America in the King Years, 1954-1963, by Taylor Branch
A Life in the
Struggle : Ivory Perry and the Culture of Opposition, by George
Lipsitz
Fiction or Poetry:
Beloved,
by Toni Morrison
A Sport of Nature,
by Nadine Gordimer
Nonfiction:
Whose Votes
Count? Affirmative Action and Minority Voting Rights, by Abigail
M. Thernstrom
Living Maya,
by Walter F. Morris Jr. & Jeffrey Jay Foxx
Nonfiction:
Spirit of Survival,
by Gail Sheehy
The Life of
Langston Hughes, by Arnold Rampersad
Nonfiction:
Freedom Rising:
life under apartheid through the eyes of an American on a four year
clandestine journey through southern Africa, by James North
Kachinas: A Hopi
Artist's Documentary, by Barton Wright and Clifford Bahnimptewa
Nazis in Skokie:
Freedom, Community and the First Amendment, by Donald Alexander
Downs
Fiction or Poetry: Mouroir: Mirrornotes of a Novel,
by Breyten Breytenbach
Nonfiction: The
Abandonment of the Jews : America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945,
by David S. Wyman
Nonfiction:
Pre-Columbian Art,
by Jose Alcina Franch
From Immigrants
to Ethnics: The Italian Americans, by Humbert S. Nelli
Nonfiction:
Ake: The Years of
Childhood, by Wole Soyinka
Hunger of Memory
: the education of Richard Rodriguez : an autobiography, by
Richard Rodriguez
Nonfiction:
Evangelist of
Race : the Germanic vision of Houston Stewart Chamberlain, by
Geoffrey G. Field
People of the
Sacred Mountain : a history of the northern Cheyenne chiefs and warrior
societies, 1830-1879 with an epilogue, 1969-1974, by Peter John
Powell
Nonfiction:
Maasai, by
Carol Beckwith & Tepilit Ole Saitoti
Song from the
Earth : American Indian painting, by Jamake Highwater
Nonfiction:
The Ecology of
Human Development : experiments by nature and design, by Urie
Bronfenbrenner
The Kung San:
Men, Women and Work in a Foraging Society, by Richard Borshay
Lee
Nonfiction: The Bushmen: San Hunters and
Herders of Southern Africa, by Phillip V. Tobias, ed.
Nonfiction:
The Legacy of
Malthus: The Social Costs of the New Scientific Racism, by Allan
Chase
The Woman Warrior
: memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts, by Maxine Hong Kingston
Nonfiction:
Simple Justice:
The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle
for Equality, by Richard Kluger
Years of Infamy:
The Untold Story of America's Concentration Camps, by Michi
Weglyn
Nonfiction:
The War Against
the Jews, 1933-1945, by Lucy S. Dawidowicz
The Arabs : their
history, aims, and challenge to the industrialized world, by
Thomas Kiernan
The Myth of the
Jewish Race, by Raphael Patai & Jennifer P. Wing
Nonfiction:
Roll, Jordan,
Roll : the world the slaves made, by Eugene D. Genovese
The Aryan Myth :
a history of racist and nationalist ideas in Europe, by Leon
Poliakov
Nonfiction:
Justice in South
Africa, by Albie Sachs
The Unfinished
Quest of Richard Wright, by Michel Fabre
The Dreyfus Case
: a documentary history, by Louis Snyder
Doctor and the
Aborigines, by Charles Duguid
Nonfiction:
The Water Is Wide,
by Pat Conroy
Men &
Brothers: Anglo-American Antislavery Cooperation, by Betty
Fladeland
Behind Ghetto
Walls : black families in a federal slum, by Lee Rainwater
Nonfiction:
The Black Image
in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny,
1817-1914, by George M. Fredrickson
Outcasts from
Evolution: Scientific Attitudes of Racial Inferiority, 1859-1900,
by John S. Haller, Jr
The Healing of a
Nation, by David Loye
The Autobiography
of an Unknown South African, by Naboth Makgatle
Slavery in the
Structure of American Politics, 1765 -1820, by Donald L.
Robinson
Nonfiction:
A History of the
African People, by Robert W. July
Black Freedom:
The Nonviolent Abolitionists from 1830 through the Civil War, by
Carleton Mabee
The Death and
Rebirth of the Seneca, by Anthony F.C. Wallace
La Raza: The
Mexican Americans, by Stan Steiner
Nonfiction:
The Negro in
Brazilian Society, by Florestan Fernandes
Scottsboro : a
tragedy of the American South, by Dan T. Carter
Custer Died for
Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto, by Vine Deloria Jr.
The Great
Betrayal: The Evacuation of the Japanese-Americans during World War II,
by Audrie Girdner & Anne Loftis
Fiction or Poetry:
In the Mecca :
poems, by Gwendolyn Brooks
Nonfiction:
The Leo Frank Case,
by Leonard Dinnerstein
Negro and White
Children: A Psychological Study in the Rural South, by E. Earl
Baughman & W. Grant Dahlstrom
The American
Indian Today, by Stuart Levine & Nancy O. Lurie, eds.
Nonfiction:
Warrant for
Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World-Conspiracy and "The Protocols of
the Elders of Zion", by Norman Cohn
The Destruction of the European Jews, by Raul Hilber
Children of
Crisis: A Study of Courage and Fear, by Robert Coles
The Jews Among
the Nations, by Erich Kahler
Nonfiction:
The Problem of
Slavery in Western Culture, by David Brion Davis
La Vida : a
Puerto Rican family in the culture of poverty--San Juan and New York,
by Oscar Lewis
Nonfiction:
The Unity of
Mankind in Greek Thought, by H.C. Baldry
Manchild in the
Promised Land, by Claude Brown
The Autobiography
of Malcolm X, by Malcolm X with Alex Haley
Your Heredity and
Environment, by Amram Scheinfeld
Nonfiction:
Assimilation in
American Life: The Role of Race, Religion and National Origins,
by Milton M. Gordon
The Struggle for
Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and
Reconstruction, by James M. McPherson
A History of the
Jews, by Abram L. Sachar
Mississippi: The
Closed Society, by James W. Silver
Nonfiction:
Beyond the
Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of
New York City, by Nathan Glazer & Daniel P. Moynihan
The New World of
Negro Americans, by Harold R. Isaacs
Faith and
Prejudice : intergroup problems in Protestant curricula, by
Bernhard Emmanuel Olson
Nonfiction:
Mankind Evolving:
The Evolution of the Human Species, by Theodosius Dobzhansky
Fiction or Poetry:
The Forbidden Man,
by Gina Allen
Nonfiction:
Antislavery: The
Crusade for Freedom in America, by Dwight L. Dumond
Black Like Me,
by John Howard Griffin
Fiction or Poetry: To Sir, With Love, by E.R.
Braithwaite
Nonfiction: The
Reluctant African, by Louis E. Lomax
Nonfiction:
The Lost Cities
of Africa, by Basil Davidson
I Speak for
Myself : the autobiography of John Haynes Holmes, by John Haynes
Holmes
Nonfiction:
Stride Toward
Freedom : the Montgomery story, by Martin Luther King Jr.
Racial and
Cultural Minorities : an analysis of prejudice and discrimination,
by George Eaton Simpson & J. Milton Yinger
Nonfiction:
White
Mother, by Jessie B. Sams
Handbook on Race
Relations in South Africa, by the South African Institute of
Race Relations
Nonfiction:
The Masters and
the Slaves: A Study in the Development of Brazilian Civilization,
by Gilberto Freyre
Naught for Your
Comfort, by Father Trevor Huddleston
Nonfiction:
A Manual of
Intergroup Relations, by John P. Dean & Alex Rosen
They Wait in
Darkness, by George W. Shepherd
Nonfiction:
Report on Africa,
by Oden Meeker
Cultural
Difference and Medical Care : the case of the Spanish-speaking people
of the Southwest. , by Lyle Saunders
Fiction or Poetry:
Simple Takes a
Wife, by Langston Hughes
Nonfiction: Struggle for Africa, by
Vernon Bartlett
Fiction or Poetry:
A
Many-Splendoured Thing, by Han Suyin
Nonfiction: People of the Deer, by
Farley Mowat
Nonfiction:
Venture to the
Interior, by Laurens van der Post
Race Relations :
the interaction of ethnic and racial groups, by Brewton Berry
Fiction or Poetry:
The Wall,
by John Hersey
Nonfiction: Twilight
in South Africa, by Henry Gibbs
Fiction or Poetry:
Your Most Humble
Servant, by Shirley Graham
Nonfiction: Punishment
Without Crime : what you can do about prejudice, by S. Andhil
Fineberg
Fiction or Poetry: Cry, the Beloved Country,
by Alan Paton
Nonfiction: Anatomy of Paradise: Hawaii and
the Islands of the South Seas, by J.C. Furnas
Fiction or Poetry: The Other Room, by Worth
Tuttle Hedden
Nonfiction: The Indians of the Americas,
by John Collier
Fiction or Poetry: East River, by Sholem Asch
Nonfiction: Latin Americans in Texas,
by Pauline R. Kibbe
Fiction or Poetry: One Nation, by Wallace
Stegner
Nonfiction: Black Metropolis : a study of
Negro life in a northern city, by St. Clair Drake & Horace
Cayton
Fiction or Poetry: Earth and High Heaven, by
Gwethalyn Graham
Nonfiction: An American Dilemma : the Negro
problem and modern democracy, by Gunnar Myrdal
New World
A-Coming : inside Black America, by Roi Ottley
The World of
Sholom Aleichem, by Maurice Samuel
Dust Tracks on a
Road, by Zora Neale Hurston
Quest : the
evolution of a scientist, by Leopold Infeld
The Haitian People,
by James G. Leyburn
From Many Lands,
by Louis Adamic
The Negro Family
in the United States, by E. Franklin Frazier
No Award Given
No Award Given
We Europeans: A
Survey of "Racial" Problems, by Julian Huxley & A.C. Haddon
Negro
Politicians: The Rise of Negro Politics in Chicago, by Harold
Gosnell
|
|
