Ralph J. Bunche Award
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2018 Theorizing race in
the Americas : Douglass, Sarmiento, Du Bois, and Vasconcelos by
Juliet Hooker and Chris Zepeda-Millán
2017 Race and the
totalitarian century : geopolitics in the Black literary
imagination by Vaughn Raspberry
2016
White
backlash : immigration, race, and American politics by
Marisa Abrajano and Zoltan L. Hajnal
2015
Civil rights and
the making of the modern American state by Megan Ming Francis
2014
Trading democracy
for justice : criminal convictions and the decline of
neighborhood political participation by Traci Burch; The
politics of belonging : race, public opinion, and immigration by
Natalie Masuoka and Jane Junn
2013
Juan in a hundred
: representations of Latinos on the network news by Otto Santa
Ana; Mobilizing inclusion : transforming the electorate through
get-out-the-vote campaigns by Lisa Garcia Bedolla and Melissa
Michelson
2012
Race appeal : how
candidates invoke race in U.S. political campaigns by Charlton
D. McIlwain and Stephen M. Caliendo
2011 The trouble with
unity : Latino politics and the creation of identity by Cristina
Beltrán
2010
Fighting for democracy : black veterans and the struggle against white supremacy
in the postwar South by Christopher S. Parker
2009 In
search of the Black fantastic : politics and popular culture in the post-Civil
Rights era by Richard Iton; Racial union : law, intimacy, and the white state in Alabama by Julie Novkov
2008 Justice, gender, and the
politics of multiculturalism by Sarah Song
2007 Countervailing forces in African-American civic activism, 1973-1994 by Fredrick
C. Harris, Valeria Sinclair-Chapman, and Brian D. McKenzie;
Racial politics in
post-revolutionary Cuba by Mark Q. Sawyer
2006
Fluid
borders : Latino power, identity, and politics in Los Angeles by Lisa
Garcia Bedolla
2005
The
rights of others : aliens, residents, and citizens by Seyla Benhabib;
The
two reconstructions : the struggle for Black enfranchisement by Richard
M. Valelly
2004
American Babylon : race and the struggle for postwar Oklahoma by Robert O.
Self
2003
Black
pride and black prejudice by Paul M. Sniderman and Thomas Piazza
2002
Black
visions : the roots of contemporary African-American political ideologies
by Michael C. Dawson
2001
Bitter
fruit: the politics of Black-Korean conflict in New York City
by Claire Jean Kim
2000
The
war in Bosnia-Herzegovina : ethnic conflict and international intervention
by Steven L. Burg and Paul S. Shoup;
Colorblind injustice : minority
voting rights and the undoing of the Second Reconstruction by J. Morgan Kousser
1999
Making race and nation : a comparison of the United States, South Africa,
and Brazil by Anthony W. Marx;
Whiteness
of a different color : European immigrants and the alchemy of race
by Matthew F. Jacobson
1998
Civic
ideals : conflicting visions of citizenship in U. S. history by
Rogers M. Smith
1997
Color
conscious : the political morality of race by Amy Gutmann and
K. Anthony Appiah
1996
Multicultural
citizenship : a liberal theory of minority rights by Will Kymlicka
1995
The
science and politics of racial research by William H. Tucker
1994
Politics in black and white : race and power in Los Angeles by Raphael
J. Sonenshein
1993
Latinos
and the U. S. political system : two-tiered pluralism by Rodney
E. Hero
1992
A
democratic South Africa? : constitutional engineering in a divided society
by Donald L. Horowitz
1991
Black
votes count : political empowerment in Mississippi after 1965 by Frank
R. Parker
1990
Regime
politics : governing Atlanta, 1946-1988 by Clarence N. Stone
1989
Black
presidential politics in America : a strategic approach by Ronald Walters
1988
Politics
and society in the South by Earl and Merel Black
1987
Ethnic
relations in the USSR : the perspective from below by Rasma Karklins; Public
opinion and collective action : the Boston school desegregation conflict
by D. Garth Taylor
1986
Beyond
busing : inside the challenge to urban segregation by Paul R.
Dimond
1985 Protest is not enough : the
struggle of Blacks and Hispanics for equality in urban politics by Rufus
P. Browning, Dale Rogers Marshall, and David H. Tabb
1984
Communists
in Harlem during the depression by Mark Naison
1983
Nations
before nationalism by John A. Armstrong;
Slavery
and social death : a comparative study by Orlando Patterson
1982 No award given
1981 The politics of cultural nationalism
in South India by Marguerite Ross Barnett
1980
Race
and class in the Southwest : a theory of racial inequality by
Mario Barrera
1979
Democracy
in plural societies : a comparative exploration by Arend Lijphart
1978
World
of our fathers by Irving Howe