Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award

Given by Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights

102 Works 25,987 Books 915 Reviews 4.1
Awarded by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights

A major purpose of the Myers Center is the review and identification of outstanding books written each year about show more discrimination and bigotry, and ways to develop equitable future communities and societies. Publishers and readers are invited to nominate books published in each preceding year. A list of outstanding books is developed, and the winners of the Gustavus Myers Award announced on Human Rights Day, December 10th, each year

List of Outstanding Books Winners website

Awards began in 1984

The awards ceased when the center closed in 2009 due to a lack of funds.
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Years:
All, 2009 (7), 2008 (12), 2006 (10), 2005 (10), 2004 (10), 2003 (12), 2002 (10), 2001 (12), 2000 (13), 1999 (1), 1995 (1), 1994 (1), 1993 (1), 1992 (2)
WorkYear
The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
2009
Asylum Denied: A Refugee's Struggle for Safety in America by David Ngaruri Kenney
2009
Bella Abzug: How One Tough Broad from the Bronx Fought Jim Crow and Joe McCarthy, Pissed Off Jimmy Carter, Battled for the Rights of Women and Workers, Rallied Against War and for the Planet, and Shook Up Politics Along the Way by Suzanne Braun Levine
2009
Everyday Antiracism: Getting Real About Race in School by Mica Pollock
2009
Bringing Human Rights Home [Three Volumes] (Praeger Perspectives) by Cynthia Soohoo
2009
Drifting Toward Love: Black, Brown, Gay, and Coming of Age on the Streets of New York by Kai Wright
2009
The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang
2009
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon
2008
Ida: A Sword Among Lions by Paula J. Giddings
2008
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route by Saidiya Hartman
2008
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex by Incite! Women of Color Against Violence
2008
The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin's Theory by Fries Kenny
2008
The Secret Powers of Naming by Sara Littlecrow-Russell
2008
Clinging to Mammy: The Faithful Slave in Twentieth-Century America by Micki McElya
2008
Anti-Arab Racism in the USA: Where it Comes From and What it Means for Politics by Steven Salaita
2008
Getting It by Alex Sanchez
2008
The Cost of Privilege: Taking On the System of White Supremacy and Racism by Chip Smith
2008
Dancing on Live Embers; Challenging Racism in Organizations by Barb Thomas
2008
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington
2008
What If All the Kids Are White?: Anti-bias Multicultural Education With Young Children And Families (Early Childhood Education Series) by Louise Derman-Sparks
2006
Roots Too by Matthew Frye Jacobson
2006
The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide by Meizhu Lui
2006
Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace by Nancy K. MacLean
2006
We Are All Suspects Now: Untold Stories from Immigrant America After 9/11 by Tram Nguyen
2006
Storming Caesar's Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty by Annelise Orleck
2006
Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present by Nell Irvin Painter
2006
And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson
2006
Lighting the Way: Nine Women Who Changed Modern America by Karenna Gore Schiff
2006
Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights by Kenji Yoshino
2006
Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Worker's Rights at Wal-Mart by Liza Featherstone
2005
The Forbidden Book: The Philippine-american War in Political Cartoons by Abe Ignacio
2005
Let's Talk About Race by Julius Lester
2005
Beyond Diversity Day: A Q&A on Gay and Lesbian Issues in Schools (Curriculum, Cultures, and (Homo)Sexualities Series) by Arthur Lipkin
2005
Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism by James W. Loewen
2005
Homeland by Dale Maharidge
2005
John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights by David S. Reynolds
2005
Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt
2005
Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice by Jael Silliman
2005
Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide by Andrea Smith
2005
To Stand and Fight: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Postwar New York City by Martha Biondi
2004
Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde by Alexis De Veaux
2004
It's Test Day, Tiger Turcotte by Pansie Hart Flood
2004
Screaming Monkeys: Critiques of Asian American Images by M. Evelina Galang
2004
Civil Rights In Peril: The Targeting of Arabs and Muslims by Elaine C. Hagopian
2004
The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government by David K. Johnson
2004
Passing It On by Yuri Kochiyama
2004
Race in the Schoolyard: Negotiating the Color Line in Classrooms and Communities (Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies) by Amanda E. Lewis
2004
BRIDGE: Building a Race and Immigration Dialogue in the Global Economy - A Popular Education Resource For Immigrant And Refugee Community Organizers by National Network For Immigrant And Refugee Rights
2004
The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K. Shipler
2004
Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955 by Carol Anderson
2003
Rights of Inclusion: Law and Identity in the Life Stories of Americans with Disabilities (Chicago Series in Law and Society) by David M Engel
2003
Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South by Catherine Fosl
2003
Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America's Poor by Tara Herivel
2003
Lessons from Turtle Island: Native Curriculum in Early Childhood Classrooms by Guy W. Jones
2003
The Interpreter by Suki Kim
2003
Troubling Education: Queer Activism and Anti-Oppressive Pedagogy by Kevin Kumashiro
2003
Reaching for the Sun: Kids in Cuba by Trish Marx
2003
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision by Barbara Ransby
2003
The Democracy Owners' Manual: A Practical Guide to Changing the World by Jim Shultz
2003
When Race Becomes Real: Black and White Writers Confront Their Personal Histories by Bernestine Singley
2003
Race in the College Classroom by Bonnie TuSmith
2003
Fire in Beulah by Rilla Askew
2002
A Place to Stand by Jimmy Santiago Baca
2002
Cultural Dilemmas of Progressive Politics by Stephen Hart
2002
Witness by Karen Hesse
2002
Erased Faces by Graciela Limón
2002
Crossing Over by Rubén Martínez
2002
Welfare Racism by Kenneth J. Neubeck
2002
A History of Affirmative Action, 1619-2000 by Philip F. Rubio
2002
Telling to Live by The Latina Feminist Group
2002
Policing the Poor by Neil Websdale
2002
Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort by Chip Berlet
2001
Civil Rights Since 1787 by Jonathan Birnbaum
2001
Bad Boys: Public Schools in the Making of Black Masculinity by Ann Arnett Ferguson
2001
Solidarity Blues: Race, Culture, and the American Left by Richard Iton
2001
After Postcolonialism by E. San Juan Jr.
2001
To Make Our World Anew by Robin D. G. Kelley
2001
Passport Photos by Amitava Kumar
2001
Invisible Lives by Viviane K. Namaste
2001
Because of the Kids by Jennifer E. Obidah
2001
The Cherokee Lottery by William Jay Smith
2001
Construction Sites: Excavating Race, Class, and Gender Among Urban Youth (Teaching for Social Justice, 4) by Lois Weis
2001
Unbending Gender by Joan C. Williams
2001
Those Bones Are Not My Child by Toni Cade Bambara
2000
Racism Explained to My Daughter by Tahar Ben Jelloun
2000
Gay Parents/Straight Schools: Building Communication and Trust by Virginia Casper
2000
When Equality Ends: Stories About Race And Resistance by Richard Delgado
2000
Mobilizing Resentment: Conservative Resurgence from the John Birch Society to the Promise Keepers by Jean Hardisty
2000
Reinventing the Enemy's Language: Contemporary Native Women's Writings of North America by Joy Harjo
2000
A Gesture Life by Chang-Rae Lee
2000
All Souls: A Family Story from Southie by Michael Patrick MacDonald
2000
Achieving the Impossible Dream: HOW JAPANESE AMERICANS OBTAINED REDRESS (Asian American Experience) by Mitchell T Maki
2000
Voices of Resistance: Testimonies of Cuban and Chilean Women by Judy Maloof
2000
Kinship: A Family's Journey in Africa and America by Philippe Wamba
2000
The Earth Shall Weep by James Wilson
2000
Interracial Justice: Conflict and Reconciliation in Post-Civil Rights America (Critical America) by Eric K. Yamamoto
2000
Playing Indian by Philip J. Deloria
1999
White Racism: The Basics by Joe R. Feagin
1995
Living with Racism: The Black Middle-Class Experience by Joe R. Feagin
1994
Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America's First Gay and Lesbian Town by Esther Newton
1993
Nativism and Slavery : The Northern Know Nothings and the Politics of the 1850s by Tyler G. Anbinder
1992
The Divided Skies: Establishing Segregated Flight Training at Tuskegee, Alabama, 1934-1942 by Robert J. Jakeman
1992

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