The 1969 winner examines achievement and ability among African American and white children in segregated Southern schools. It looks closely at intelligence, school performance, family life, and relationships with teachers, and treats the gap as something shaped by individual differences and social conditions rather than by crude racial assumptions.

A study of schoolchildren in the segregated South that reads achievement through lived conditions, not easy racial assumptions.

A large-scale psychological study of Black and White children living in the rural South, examining differences and shared traits in school achievement, social behavior, motivation, and temperament. By layering family, school, and community conditions, it argues that the differences observed arise from environment rather than innate factors.

A psychological study that traces the links between environment and development through children in the rural South.

Centering on the 1913 murder of Mary Phagan, Leo Frank's trial, and the later lynching, the book shows how antisemitism, mob pressure, and a fragile legal process deepened the tragedy. It has long been read as a substantial historical account that traces Southern prejudice through one defining case.

A single case that casts sharp light on prejudice and judicial failure in the American South.

An essay collection that surveys social change among Native Americans from both historical background and present conditions. It ranges across political self-determination, education, community, and relations with the federal government, offering a wide-angle view of the Native activism of the late 1960s.

A concise overview of a changing Native American society, not just a history book.

This collaborative volume presents the contemporary situation of Native Americans through a wide historical and policy lens. By moving across regional case studies, it gives a layered view of cultural continuity, economic self-determination, and the challenge of tribal sovereignty.

A book for reading the Native present beyond the historical narrative.

Set in Chicago's aging apartment building called the Mecca, this poetry collection follows a mother's search for her missing child and traces loss, tension, and solidarity within a Black urban community.

The book follows the traces of loss and memory inside a towering building, rendered with sharp observation and verbal precision.