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

Edition 56 (1991)

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Winners

5 people

A biographical and intellectual study of Gunnar Myrdal and his influence on civil rights and racial liberalism. It connects the history of social policy with the history of race relations.

Through one thinker, the genealogy of American racial liberalism comes into view.

468 pages
biographyrace relationssocial policyintellectual history

A historical study that moves from Puritan colonists to twentieth-century mainline Protestant churches in order to show how American Christianity became entangled with racial hierarchy. It brings whiteness inside religious history into view.

The history of faith is also the history of racial order.

517 pages
religious historyraceAmerican historyProtestantism

A photo-driven survey of the cultures and landscapes of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa. Religious ritual, body decoration, and local ways of life are presented in richly visual form.

The photographs carry the full thickness of the region’s cultures.

photographyEthiopiathe Horn of Africacultural history
Angela Fisher Winner

A photo-driven survey of the cultures and landscapes of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa. Religious ritual, body decoration, and local ways of life are presented in richly visual form.

The photographs carry the full thickness of the region’s cultures.

photographyEthiopiathe Horn of Africacultural history

A photo-driven survey of the cultures and landscapes of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa. Religious ritual, body decoration, and local ways of life are presented in richly visual form.

The photographs carry the full thickness of the region’s cultures.

photographyEthiopiathe Horn of Africacultural history