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Edition 54 (1989)

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Winners

4 people

A large editorial series that restores and edits dispersed texts by nineteenth-century Black women writers. Rather than reading each work in isolation, it reconstructs the history of Black women's writing through the framework of recovery itself.

It gathers scattered voices into a thirty-volume recovery project.

Black women's literaturerecovery publishingediting historynineteenth-century literatureAmerican literature
Taylor Branch Winner

A biographical nonfiction work that traces the life of grassroots civil-rights activist Ivory Perry alongside urban social movements and political change. Through one person's life, it presents the contested and solidaristic landscape of postwar America.

From one activist's life, the wider world of the movement comes into view.

292 pages
civil-rights movementbiographysocial movementsAmerican historyurban politics

An exhibition catalog that presents Indigenous Australian art across traditional designs and contemporary expression. It reconsiders artistic meaning through the relationship among works, land, ritual, and community.

Dreaming imagery becomes a shared language linking tradition and the present.

266 pages
Indigenous Australian artexhibition catalogethnic cultureart historyAboriginal Australia
Peter Sutton Winner

A sweeping history centered on Martin Luther King Jr. that traces the formation and expansion of the civil-rights movement. It combines political urgency with a close view of lived experience in the movement.

The civil-rights movement becomes a portrait of an entire era.

1088 pages
civil-rights movementAmerican historyracepolitical historybiography