James A. Rawley Prize

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2018     City of inmates : conquest, rebellion, and the rise of human caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965 by Kelly Lytle Hernández; Dawn of Detroit : a chronicle of slavery and freedom in the City of the Straits by Tiya Miles
2017     The common cause : creating race and nation in the American Revolution by Robert G. Parkinson
2016     Brethren by nature : New England Indians, colonists, and the origins of American slavery by Margaret Ellen Newell
2015     Captive nation : Black prison organizing in the civil rights Era by Daniel Berger
2014     The contested murder of Latasha Harlins : justice, gender, and the origins of the L. A. riots by Brenda E. Stevenson
2013     Somebody's children : the politics of transracial and transnational adoption by Laura Briggs
2012     No man's land : Jamaican guestworkers in America and the global history of deportable labor by Cindy Hahamovitch
2011     Racial propositions : ballot initiatives and the making of postwar California by Daniel Martinez HoSang
2010     The canal builders : making America's empire at the Panama Canal by Julie Greene
2009     The reaper's garden : death and power in the world of Atlantic slavery by Vincent Brown
2008     Becoming free in the cotton south by Susan Eva O'Donovan
2007     The blood of government : race, empire, the United States, and the Philippines by Paul A. Kramer
2006     The Black Arts Movement : literary nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s by James Edward Smethurst
2005     American Babylon : race and the struggle for postwar Oakland by Robert O. Self
2004     Ella Baker & the Black freedom movement : a radical democratic vision by Barbara Ransby
2003     Working cures : healing, health, and power on southern slave plantations by Sharla M. Fett
            Stories of freedom in Black New York by Shane White
2002     Deep Souths : Delta, Piedmont and Sea Island society in the age of segregation by J. William Harris
            Race and reunion : the Civil War in American memory by David W. Blight
2001     Reimagining Indians : Native Americans through Anglo eyes, 1880-1940 by Sherry L. Smith
2000     Radio Free Dixie : Robert F. Williams and the roots of Black Power by Timothy B. Tyson
1999     Just my soul responding : rhythm and blues, Black consciousness, and race relations by Brian Ward
1998     Contempt and pity : social policy and the image of the damaged Black psyche, 1880-1996 by Daryl Michael Scott
1997     Gender and Jim Crow : women and the politics of white supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore
1996     Reconstructing the household : families, sex, and the law in the nineteenth-century South by Peter W. Bardaglio
1995     Behind the mask of chivalry : the making of the second Ku Klux Klan by Nancy MacLean
1994     Southern labor and Black civil rights : organizing Memphis workers by Michael K. Honey
1993     The promise of the New South : life after Reconstruction by Edward L. Ayers
1992     The middle ground : Indians, empires, and republics in the Great Lakes region, 1650-1815 by Richard White
            When Jesus came, the corn mothers went away : marriage, sexuality, and power in New Mexico, 1500-1846 by Ramón A. Gutiérrez
1991     Thrown among strangers : the making of Mexican culture in Frontier California by Douglas Monroy
1990     Belonging to America : equal citizenship and the constitution by Kenneth L. Karst