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Anisfield-Wolf Book Award アニスフィールド=ウルフしょう

Edition 4 (1939)

FictionPoetryNonfictionMemoir/AutobiographyLifetime achievementSpecial achievement

Winners

2 people
Ralph J. Bunche らるふ じぇー ぶんち Winner

A research study analyzing the political, economic, and social status of non-European peoples in South Africa. It functions as a historical study rather than a standalone book.

It reads South African society through data and lived conditions.

social researchracial policySouth Africapolitics
Charles S. Johnson ちゃーるず えす じょんそん Winner

A study tracking the paths, occupations, and geographic distribution of Black college graduates. It shows both the opportunities and constraints that higher education created for Black communities.

The realities of Black higher education emerge through the lives that followed graduation.

430 pages
higher educationAfrican American historysocial studyemployment