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

Edition 35 (1970)

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Winners

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Dan T. Carter Winner

A historical study of the Scottsboro case that follows the trials and the debates they provoked, showing how wrongful conviction and racial discrimination shaped Southern justice.

A wrongful-conviction case becomes a lens for rethinking Southern justice and racial order.

479 pages
Scottsboro casewrongful convictionracial discriminationAmerican Southlegal history

Best known as one of Vine Deloria Jr.'s defining books, this essay collection uses humor and sharp criticism to dismantle stereotypes about Native Americans and to argue for tribal self-determination and cultural dignity. Looking beyond federal policy to religion and the social sciences, it reexamines American society through an Indigenous lens.

A witty book that resets the way readers see Native Americans and sharply rethinks what tribal pride and self-determination mean.

296 pages
Native self-determinationrace and prejudicereligious critiqueinstitutional critiquehumorous essays

An English translation of Florestan Fernandes's study of race relations in Brazil, examining the social position of Black Brazilians in Sao Paulo and challenging the myth of racial democracy.

An important sociological study that reads Black experience in Brazilian society through history and class.

520 pages
Brazilian societyrace relationsBlack social positionclassracial democracy

A broad history of the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, drawing on interviews and archival research to trace the story from the prewar years through the camps and beyond.

A careful history of Japanese American incarceration that centers the voices of the people who lived through it.

562 pages
Japanese AmericansWorld War IIincarcerationcivil rightsoral testimony
Anne Loftis Winner

A broad history of the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, drawing on interviews and archival research to trace the story from the prewar years through the camps and beyond.

A careful history of Japanese American incarceration that centers the voices of the people who lived through it.

562 pages
Japanese AmericansWorld War IIincarcerationcivil rightsoral testimony