Ralph J. Bunche Award Recipients
| Year | Author | Title | Publisher |
| 2016 | Marisa Abrajano and Zoltan Hajnal | White Backlash: Immigration, Race, and American Politics | Princeton University Press |
| 2015 | Megan Ming Francis | Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State | Cambridge University Press |
| 2014 2014 | Tracie Burch Natalie Masuoka and Jane Junn | Trading Democracy for Justice: Criminal Convictions and the Decline of the Neighborhood Political Participation The Politics of Belonging: Race, Public Opinion, and Immigration | University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press |
| 2013 | Otto Santa Ana | Juan in a Hundred: Representations of Latinos on the Network News | University of Texas Press |
| 2013 | Lisa Garcia Bedolla and Melissa Michelson | Mobilizing Inclusion: Transforming the Electorate through Get-Out-the Vote Campaigns | Yale University Press |
| 2012 | Charlton D. Mcllwain and Stephen M. Caliendo | Race Appeal: How Candidates Invoke Race in U.S. Political Campaigns | Temple University Press |
| 2011 | Cristina Beltrán | The Trouble with Unity: Latino Politics and the Creation of Identity | Oxford University Press |
| 2010 | Christopher S. Parker | Fighting for Democracy: Black Veterans and the Struggle Against White Supremacy in the Postwar South | Princeton University Press |
| 2009 | Richard Iton | In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era | Oxford University Press |
| 2009 | Julie Novkov | Racial Union: Law, Intimacy, and the White State in Alabama | University of Michigan Press |
| 2008 | Sarah Song | Justice, Gender, and the Politics of Multiculturalism | Cambridge University Press |
| 2008 | Victoria Hattam | In The Shadow of Race: Jews, Latinos, and Immigrant Politics in the United States | University of Chicago Press |
| 2007 | Fredrick C. Harris, Valeria Sinclair-Chapman and Brian D. McKenzie | Countervailing Forces in African-American Civic Activism, 1973-1994 | Cambridge University Press |
| 2007 | Mark Q. Sawyer | Racial Politics in Post-Revolutionary Cuba |
