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Ralph Bunche Award Winners Ralph Bunche Award Winners

For the best scholarly work in political science published in the previous year that explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism.

Year Author Title Publisher
1978 Irving Howe World of Our Fathers Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich
1979 Arend Lijphart Democracy in Plural Societies: A Comparative Approach Yale University Press
1979 M. Crawford Young The Politics of Cultural Pluralism University of Wisconsin Press
1980 Mario Barrera Race and Class in the Southwest: A Theory of Racial Inequality University of Notre Dame Press
1981 Marguerite Ross Barnett The Politics of Cultural Nationalism in South India Princeton University Press
1982
No award given
1983 John A. Armstrong Nations Before Nationalism University of North Carolina Press

Orlando Patterson Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study Harvard University Press
1984 Mark Naison Communists in Harlem During the Depression University of Illinois Press
1985 Rufus P. Browning,
Dale Rogers Marshall,
and David H. Tabb
Protest Is Not Enough: The Struggle of Blacks and Hispanics for Equality in Urban Politics University of California Press
1986 Paul R. Dimond Beyond Busing: Inside the Challenge to Urban Segregation University of Michigan Press
1987 Rasma Karklins Ethnic Relations in the USSR: The Perspective from Below Allen & Unwin

D. Garth Taylor Public Opinion and Collective Action: The Boston School Desegregation Conflict University of Chicago Press
1988 Earl and Merel Black Politics and Society in the South Harvard University Press
1989 Ronald Walters Black Presidential Politics State University of New York Press
1990 Clarence N. Stone Regime Politics: Governing Atlanta, 1946-1988 University Press of Kansas
1991 Frank R. Parker Black Votes Count University of North Carolina Press
1992 Donald L. Horowitz A Democratic South Africa? Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society University of California Press
1993 Rodney E. Hero Latinos and the U.S. Political System: Two-tiered Pluralism Temple University Press
1994 Raphael J. Sonenshein Politics in Black and White: Race and Power in Los Angeles Princeton University Press
1995 William H. Tucker The Science and Politics of Racial Research University of Illinois Press
1996 Will Kymlicka Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights Oxford University Press
1997 Amy Gutmann and K. Anthony Appiah Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race Princeton University Press
1998 Rogers M. Smith Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History Yale University Press
1999 Anthony W. Marx Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of the United States, South Africa, and Brazil Cambridge University Press

Matthew F. Jacobson Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race Harvard University Press
2000 Steven L. Burg and Paul S. Shoup The War in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Ethnic Conflict and International Intervention M.E. Sharpe

J. Morgan Kousser Colorblind Injustice: Minority Voting Rights and the Undoing of the Second Reconstruction University of North Carolina Press
2001 Claire Jean Kim Bitter Fruit: The Politics of Black-Korean Conflict in New York City Yale University Press
2002 Michael Dawson Black Visions: The Roots of Contemporary African-American Political Ideologies University of Chicago Press
2003 Paul M. Sniderman and Thomas Piazza Black Pride and Black Prejudice Princeton University Press
2004 Robert O. Self American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oklahoma Princeton University Press
2005
Seyla Benhabib
The Rights of Others
Cambridge University Press


Richard M. Valelly
The Two Reconstructions: The Struggle for Black Enfranchisement
University of Chicago Press
2006 Lisa Garcia Bedolla Fluid Borders: Latino Power, Identity, and Politics in Los Angeles University of California Press