Award Winners Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Award Winners

Best Book Award on Identity and Intergroup Relations

2006

Lisa Garcia Bedolla University of California, Berkeley

Fluid Borders: Latino Power, Identity and Politics in Los Angeles (University of California Press, 2005)

Best First Book Award

2006

Ange-Marie Hancock Yale University

The Politics of Disgust: The Public Identity of the 'Welfare Queen' (NYU Press, 2005)

Best Book Award on the Social Construction of Race

2001	Richard Iton University of Toronto	Solidarity Blues: Race, Culture, and the American Left (University of North Carolina Press, 2000)
2000	Robert G. Lee Marians Baptist Academy	Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Culture (Temple University Press, 1999)
1998	Matthew Frye Jacobson Yale University	Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race (Harvard University Press, 1998)

Best Book Award on Racial Identity

1999

Andra Y. Simpson University of Washington

The Tie That Binds: Identity and Political Attitudes in the Post-Civil Rights Generation (New York University Press, 1998)

Best Book Award on Intersections of Race and Gender

2005	Michele Tracy Berger University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	Workable Sisterhood: The Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS (Princeton University Press, 2004 )
1999	Luana Ross University of California, Davis	Inventing the Savage: The Social Construction of Native American Criminality (University of Texas Press, 1998)

Best Book Award on Ethnic Political Incorporation

2000	Mary C. Waters Institute for Initative and Referendum	Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities (Harvard University Press, 1999)
1999	Michael Jones-Correa Harvard University	Between Two Nations: The Political Predicament of Latinos in New York City (Cornell University Press, 1998)

Best Book Award on Comparative Racial and Ethnic Politics

2006	Donna Lee Van Cott Tulane University	From Movements to Parties in Latin America: The Evolution of Ethnic Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
2001	William E. Nelson, Jr. Ohio State University	Black Atlantic Politics (State University of New York Press, 2000)

Best Book Award on Comparative Racial and Ethnic Research

2005	James L. Gibson Washington University	Overcoming Apartheid: Can Truth Reconcile a Divided Nation? (Russell Sage Foundation, 2004)
	Sherene H. Razack University of Toronto	Dark Threats and White Knights: The Somalia Affair, Peacekeeping and the New Imperialism (University of Toronto Press, 2004)

Best Book Award on Historical Perspectives of Race and Ethnic Politics

2002	Matthew Pratt Guterl Brown University	The Color of Race in America, 1900-1940 (Harvard University Press, 2001)
2001	David Kryder Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Divided Arsenal: Race and the American State During World War II (Cambridge University Press, 2000)

Best Book Award on Social and Legal Dimensions of Ethnic and Racial Politics in the U.S.

2005	Albert L. Samuels Southern University	Is Separate Unequal? Black Colleges and the Challenge to Desegregation (University Press of Kansas)
2002	Keith Wailoo University of North Carolina	Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health (University of North Carolina Press, 2001)
2001	Ronald Schmidt, Sr. California State University, Long Beach	Language Policy and Identity Politics in the U.S. (Cambridge University Press, 2000)

Best Book Award on Social, Cultural, and Ideological Construction on Race

2001

Richard Iton University of Toronto

Solidarity Blues: Race, Culture, and the American Left (University of North Carolina Press, 2000)

Best Book Award on Racial Power and Social Movement Theory

2001

Claire Jean Kim University of California, Irvine

Bitter Fruit: The Politics of Black-Korean Conflict in New York City (Yale University Press, 2000)

Best Book Award on Racial and Ethnic Political Identities, Ideologies and Theories

2005

Melissa Victoria Harris-Lacewell University of Chicago

Barbershops, Bibles and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought (University Press, 2004)

Best Book Award on Race and Ethnicity Politics in Local Contexts

2004

Lewis Randolph Ohio University Gayle Tate Indiana University, Bloomington

Rights for a Season: The Politics of Race, Class, and Gender in Richmond, Virginia (University of Tennessee Press)

Best Book Award on Race and Ethnic Political Theory and Organizational Development

2004

Benjamin Marquez University of Wisconsin

Constructing Identities in Mexican American Political Organizations (University of Texas Press)

Best Book Award on Race and Ethnic Political Representation

2004

Katherine Tate University of California, Irvine

Black Faces in the Mirror: African Americans and Their Representatives in the U.S. Congress (Princeton University Press)

Best Book Award on Public Policy and Race and Ethnic Politics in the United States

2006	Robert C. Lieberman Columbia University	Shaping Race Policy: The United States in Comparative Perspective (Princeton University Press, 2005)
2004	Linda Faye Williams University of Maryland	The Constraint of Race: Legacies of White Skin Privilege in America (Pennsylvania State University Press)

Best Paper Award
for the best paper on race, ethnicity, and politics presented at the APSA annual meeting

2004	Christopher S. Parker University of California, Santa Barbara	"Shades of Patriotism: Group Identity, National Identity, and Democracy"
2000	Yasmeen Abu-Laban University of Alberta	"Reconstructing an Inclusive Citizenship: Globalization, Migration, and Difference"
1998	Clare Sheridan University of Texas, Austin	"A Genealogy of Citizenship: Mexican Americans, Race, and National Identity"

Best Dissertation Award
for the best American dissertation on race, ethnicity, and politics

2006	Khalilah L. Brown-Dean Ohio State University	"One Lens, Multiple Views: Felon Disenfranchisement Laws and American Political Inequality"
	Naomi Murakawa Yale University	"Electing to Punish: Congress, Race, and the American Criminal Justice State"
2002	Renee Ann Cramer California State University	"The Multiple Contexts of Federal Acknowledgement Law: A Sociological Perspective" (Completed at New York University)
2000	Lisa Garcia Bedolla Yale University	"Fluid Borders: Latino Identity Community and Politics in Los Angeles"
	Kristen Hill-Maher University of California, Irvine	"A Stranger in the House: American Ambivalence About Immigrant Labor"
	Diane-Michele Prindeville University of New Mexico	"On the Streets and in the State House: American Indian and Hispanic Women and Environmental Policymaking in New Mexico"
1998	Claire Jean Kim University of California, Irvine	"Cracks in the 'Gorgeous Mosaic': Black-Korean Conflict and Racial Mobilization in New York City"

Best Dissertation Award
for the best comparative dissertation on race, ethnicity, and politics

1998

Allaine D. Cerwonka University of California, Irvine

"Space and Nation in a Global Era: In Search of Australia"