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The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti
Erin Durban
University of Illinois Press
Winner, Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Studies
Crip Colony: Mestizaje, US Imperialism, and the Queer Politics of Disability in the Philippines
Sony Coráñez Bolton
Duke University Press
Winner, Lora Romero First Book Prize, presented by the American Studies Association
White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Exploitation
Naa Oyo A. Kwate
University of Minnesota Press
Winner, Association for the Study of Food and Society Book Award
Winner, James Beard Media Award for Reference, History, and Scholarship
Winner, Black Caucus of the American Library Association Nonfiction Book Award
Winner, Urban Affairs Association Best Book in Urban Affairs Award
Winner, Association for Humanist Sociology Betty & Alfred McClung Lee Book Award
Finalist, Business History Conference Hagley Prize
Beyond Straw Men: Plastic Pollution and Networked Cultures of Care
Phaedra C. Pezzullo
University of California Press
Winner, Diamond Anniversary Book Award, presented by the National Communication Association
Winner, James A. Winans – Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address, presented by the National Communication Association
Winner, Tarla Rai Peterson Book Award in Environmental Communication, presented by the National Communication Award
Code Work: Hacking across the US/México Techno-Borderlands
Héctor Beltrán
Princeton University Press
Winner, Labor Tech Research Network Book Award
Playful Protest: The Political Work of Joy in Latinx Media
Kristie Soares
University of Illinois Press
Winner, Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title
Plastic Matter
Heather Davis
Duke University Press
Winner, Alanna Bondar Memorial Book Prize, presented by the Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada
The Latinx Guide to Graduate School
Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales and Magdalena L. Barrera
Duke University Press
Winner, International Latino Book Awards: Best Academic Themed Book, College Level – English
The Voice of Virtue: Moral Song and the Practice of French Stoicism, 1574-1652
Melinda Latour
Oxford University Press
Winner, Morris D. Forkosch Book Prize, presented by the Journal of the History of Ideas
The Center Cannot Hold: Decolonial Possibility in the Collapse of a Tanzanian NGO
Jenna N. Hanchey
Duke University Press
Winner, Outstanding Monograph Award, presented by the Organizational Communication Division of National Communication Association
Reading Territory: Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal, and the Nineteenth-Century State
Kathryn Walkiewicz
University of North Carolina Press
Honorable mention, Lora Romero First Book Prize, presented by the American Studies Association
Ambivalent Affinities: A Political History of Blackness and Homosexuality after World War II
Jennifer Dominique Jones
University of North Carolina Press
Honorable mention, James A. Rawley Award, presented by the Organization of American Historians
Finalist, Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Studies
Nomination, MAAH Stone Book Award
Displacing Kinship: The Intimacies of Intergenerational Trauma in Vietnamese American Cultural Production
Linh Thủy Nguyễn
Temple University Press
Honorable mention, Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize, presented by the National Women’s Studies Association
American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland Trail
Sarah Keyes
University of Pennsylvania Press
Finalist, Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize, presented by the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska
Runner up, Bonney MacDonald Award for Outstanding Western Book, presented by the Center for the Study of the American West
Moral and Immoral Whiteness in Immigration Politics
Yalidy Matos
Oxford University Press
Honorable mention, Best Book Award, presented by the American Political Science Association Section on Migration and Citizenship
Between Banat: Queer Arab Critique and Transnational Arab Archives
Mejdulene Bernard Shomali
Duke University Press
Honorable mention, Association of Middle East Women’s Studies Book Award
Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times
Erin McElroy
Duke University Press
Honorable mention, Labor Tech Research Network Book Award
