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"