The Darlene Clark Hine Award

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2018     Medical bondage : race, gender, and the origins of American gynecology by Deirdre Cooper Owens; honorable mention: The promise of patriarchy : women and the Nation of Islam by ​Ula Yvette Taylor; Remaking Black power : how Black women transformed an era by Ashley D. Farmer
2017     Sex workers, psychics, and numbers runners : black women in New York City’s underground economy by LaShawn D. Harris
2016     Chained in silence : black women and convict labor in the New South by Talitha L. LeFlouria
2015     Notes from a colored girl : the Civil War pocket diaries of Emilie Frances Davis by Karsonya Wise Whitehead
2014     Redefining rape : sexual violence in the era of suffrage and segregation by Estelle B. Freedman
2013     To free a family : the journey of Mary Walker by Sydney Nathans
2012     Reasoning from race : feminism, law, and the civil rights revolution by Serena Mayeri
2011     Jesus, jobs, and justice : African American women and religion by Bettye Collier-Thomas; Talk with you like a woman : African American women, justice, and reform in New York, 1890–1935 by Cheryl D. Hicks (honorable mention); At the dark end of the street : black women, rape, and resistance - a new history of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the rise of Black Power by Danielle L. McGuire (honorable mention)
2010     Sojourner Truth's America by Margaret Washington; Upbuilding Black Durham : gender, class, and Black community development in the Jim Crow South by Leslie Brown (honorable mention); Southern horrors : women and the politics of rape and lynching by Crystal N. Feimster (honorable mention)