Theodore Saloutos Book Award

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2018     The INS on the line : making immigration law on the US-Mexico border, 1917-1954 by S. Deborah Kang; honorable mention: Porous borders : multiracial migrations and the law in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands by Julian Lim
2017     Defiant braceros : how migrant workers fought for racial, sexual, and political freedom by Mireya Loza
2016     The good immigrants : how the yellow peril became the model minority by Madeline Y. Hsu; Honorable Mention: Corazón de Dixie : Mexicanos in the U.S. South since 1910 by Julie Weise
2015     Abrazando el espíritu : Bracero families confront the US-Mexico border by Ana Elizabeth Rosas; Honorable Mention: Culling the masses : the democratic origins of racist immigration policy in the Americas by David Fitzgerald and David Cook-Martin; Honorable Mention: The color of success : Asian Americans and the origins of the model minority by Ellen Wu
2014     Bengali Harlem and the lost histories of South Asian America by Vivek Bald
2013     Foreign relations : American immigration in global perspective by Donna R. Gabaccia
2012     Subverting exclusion : transpacific encounters with race, caste, and borders, 1885-1928 by Andrea Geiger
2011     Dual awards: Living the revolution : Italian women's resistance and radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945 by Jennifer Guglielmo; Puerto Rican citizen : history and political identity in twentieth-century New York City by Lorrin Thomas
2010     In sight of America : photography and the development of U.S. immigration policy by Anna Pegler Gordon
2009     Making a non-White America Californians coloring outside ethnic lines, 1925-1955 by Allyson Varzally
2008     From all points : America's immigrant West, 1870s-1952 by Elliott Barkan
2007     The price of whiteness : Jews, race, and American identity by Eric Goldstein
2006     Between two empires : race, history, and transnationalism in Japanese America by Eiichiro Azuma
2005     Impossible subjects : illegal aliens and the making of modern America by Mae M. Ngai
2004     At America's gates : Chinese immigration during the exclusion era, 1882-1943 by Erika Lee
2003     More than Black : Afro-Cubans in Tampa by Susan D. Greenbaum
2002     American crucible : race and nation in the twentieth century by Gary Gerstle
2001     From Ellis Island to JFK : New York's two great waves of immigration by Nancy Foner
2000     Migration and the origins of the English Atlantic world by Alison Games
1999     Closing the gate : race, politics, and the Chinese Exclusion Act by Andrew Gyory
1998     The minds of the West : ethnocultural evolution in the rural Middle West, 1830-1917 by Jon Gjerde
1997     Insecure prosperity : small-town Jews in industrial America, 1890-1940 by Ewa T. Morawska
1996     Law harsh as tigers : Chinese immigrants and the shaping of modern immigration law by Lucy E. Salyer
1995     Silent travelers : germs, genes, and the "immigrant menace" by Alan M. Kraut
1994     Becoming Mexican American : ethnicity, culture, and identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 by George J. Sanchez
1993     Africans in colonial Louisiana : the development of Afro-Creole culture in the eighteenth century by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall
1992     The American kaleidoscope : race, ethnicity, and the civic culture by Lawrence H. Fuchs
1991     An immigrant success story : East Indians in America by Arthur W. Helweg and Usha M. Helweg
1990     Albion's seed : four British folkways in America by David Hackett Fischer
1989     A community transplanted : the trans-Atlantic experience of a Swedish immigrant settlement in the Upper Middle West, 1835-1915 by Robert C. Ostergren
1988     The immigrant world of Ybor City : Italians and their Latin neighbors in Tampa, 1885-1985 by Gary R. Mormino and George E. Pozzetta
1987     Voyagers to the West : a passage in the peopling of America on the eve of the Revolution by Bernard Bailyn
1986     From peasants to farmers : the migration from Balestrand, Norway to the upper Middle West by Jon Gjerde; Emigrants and exiles : Ireland and the Irish exodus to North America by Kerby A. Miller
1985     The abandonment of the Jews : America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945 by David S. Wyman
1984     The Huguenots in America : a refugee people in new world society by Jon Butler