Anisfield-Wolf Book Award アニスフィールド=ウルフしょう
Edition 27 (1962)
Winners
2 peopleAntislavery is a large-scale history of the American antislavery movement, tracing it from the Revolutionary era through the Civil War and Reconstruction. Built on thirty years of research, it organizes a wide range of material on politics, religion, legal battles, and the struggle for Black freedom.
A research book that draws the full shape of the antislavery movement from a vast documentary base.
Black Like Me is a nonfiction book in which a white reporter darkens his skin with medication and travels through the American South as a Black man. Written in diary form, it conveys open discrimination, daily humiliation, and the reality of segregation together with the writer's own unease.
A reportage that crosses the color line in order to describe the lived reality of discrimination firsthand.