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Book Awards Highlight Diversity and Human Rights
The Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America, an organization that promotes ways to become more active in co-creating an equitable world, has announced the winners of its 24th annual Outstanding Book Awards. The Center’s book awards highlight a diversity of books that speak to the global experiences – from struggle to change – of each author. The Myers Center panelists selected these books from approximately 400 nominations this year.
Published in a variety of formats and with varied themes, the authors unveil the moving stories that drive change across the world – from communities to corporations. The authors share critical perspectives about life in a changing, multicultural world. The 2008 Myers Outstanding Book Award winners are as follows:
Diversity/Multicultural
- Kai Wright, Drifting Toward Love: Black, Brown, Gay and Coming of Age on the Streets of New York. Beacon Press (2008)
- Mica Pollock, Ed., Everyday Antiracism: Getting Real About Race In School. The New Press (2008)
- Kao Kalia Yang, The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir. Coffee House Press (2008)
Women Breaking Barriers
- Paula J. Giddings, Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching. Amistad/HarperCollins (2008)
- Suzanne Braun Levine and Mary Thom, Bella Abzug: How One Tough Broad from the Bronx Fought Jim Crow and Joe McCarthy, Pissed Off Jimmy Carter, Battled for the Rights of Women and Workers. Farrar, Straus, Giroux (2007)
Struggle For Justice
- David Ngaruri Kenney and Philip G. Schrag, Asylum Denied: A Refugee’s Struggle for Safety in America. University of California Press (2008)
- Mahvish Rukhsana Khan, My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me. Public Affairs (2008)
- Cynthia Soohoo, Catherine Albisa, and Martha Davis, Eds., Bringing Human Rights Home, Vols. 1-3. Praeger/Greenwood Publishing Group (2008)
History of Enslavement
- Douglas A. Blackmon, Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II. Doubleday (2008)
- Lawrence Hill, Someone Knows My Name: A Novel. W.W. Norton & Company (2007)