Year | Author | Title | Ref. |
1936 | Harold Foote Gosnell | Negro Politicians: Rise of Negro Politics in Chicago | |
1937 | Julian Huxley and A. C. Haddon | We Europeans: A Survey of "Racial" Problems | |
1939 | Ralph J. Bunche | An Analysis of the Political, Economic and Social Status of the Non-European Peoples in South Africa | |
Charles S. Johnson | The Negro College Graduate | |
1940 | Edward Franklin Frazier | The Negro Family in the United States | |
1941 | Louis Adamic | From Many Lands | |
1942 | James G. Leyburn | The Haitian People | |
Leopold Infeld | Quest: An Autobiography | |
1943 | Zora Neale Hurston | Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography | |
1944 | Roi Ottley | New World A-Coming | |
Maurice Samuel | The World of Sholom Aleichem | |
1945 | Gunnar Myrdal | An American Dilemma | |
1946 | St. Clair Drake and Horace Cayton | Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City | |
Wallace Stegner and the editors of Look | One Nation | |
1947 | Pauline R. Kibbe | Latin Americans in Texas | |
1948 | John Collier | The Indians of the Americas | |
1949 | J.C. Furnas | Anatomy of Paradise | |
1950 | S. Andhil Fineberg | Punishment Without Crime | |
Shirley Graham | Your Most Humble Servant | |
1951 | Henry Gibbs | Twilight in South Africa | |
1952 | Laurens Van Der Post | Venture to the Interior | |
Brewton Berry | Race Relations | |
1953 | Farley Mowat | People of the Deer | |
Han Suyin | A Many-Splendoured Thing | |
1954 | Vernon Bartlett | Struggle for Africa | |
1955 | Oden Meeker | Report on Africa | |
Lyle Saunders | Cultural Differences and Medical Care | |
1956 | John P. Dean and Alex Rosen | A Manual of Intergroup Relations | |
George W. Shepherd | They Wait in Darkness | |
1957 | Father Trevor Huddleston | Naught for Your Comfort | |
Gilberto Freyre | The Masters and the Slaves: A Study in the Development of Brazilian Civilization | |
1958 | South African Institute of Race Relations | Handbook on Race Relations | |
Jessie B. Sams | White Mother | |
1959 | Martin Luther King Jr. | Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story | |
George Eaton Simpson and J. Milton Yinger | Racial and Cultural Minorities:: An Analysis of Prejudice and Discrimination | |
1960 | John Haynes Holmes | I Speak for Myself | |
Basil Davidson | The Lost Cities of Africa | |
1961 | E. R. Braithwaite | To Sir, With Love | |
Louis E. Lomax | The Reluctant African | |
1962 | Dwight L. Dumond | Antislavery: The Crusade for Freedom in America | |
John Howard Griffin | Black Like Me | |
1963 | Theodosius Dobzhansky | Mankind Evolving | |
1964 | Harold R. Isaacs | The New World of Negro Americans | |
Bernard E. Olson | Faith and Prejudice | |
Nathan Glazer and Daniel P. Moynihan | Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians, and Irish of New York City | |
1965 | Milton M. Gordon | Assimilation in American Life: The Role of Race, Religion and National Origins | |
James M. McPherson | The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction | |
Abram L. Sachar | A History of the Jews, Revised Edition | |
James W. Silver | Mississippi: The Closed Society | |
1966 | H. C. Baldry | The Unity of Mankind in Greek Thought | |
Claude Brown | Manchild in the Promised Land | |
Malcolm X and Alex Haley | The Autobiography of Malcolm X | |
Amram Scheinfeld | Your Heredity and Environment | |
1967 | David Brion Davis | The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture | |
Oscar Lewis | La Vida | |
1968 | Norman Rufus Colin Cohn | Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion | |
Robert Coles | Children of Crisis: A Study of Courage and Fear | |
Raul Hilberg | The Destruction of the European Jews | |
Erich Kahler | The Jews among the Nations | |
1969 | E. Earl Baughman and W. Grant Dahlstrom | Negro and White Children: A Psychological Study in the Rural South | |
Leonard Dinnerstein | The Leo Frank Case | |
Stuart Levine and Nancy O. Lurie | The American Indian Today | |
1970 | Dan T. Carter | Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South | |
Vine Deloria | Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto | |
Florestan Fernandes | The Negro in Brazilian Society | |
Audrie Girdner and Anne Loftis | The Great Betrayal: The Evacuation of the Japanese-Americans during World War II | |
1971 | Robert William July | A History of the African People | |
Carleton Mabee | Black Freedom: The Nonviolent Abolitionists from 1830 through the Civil War | |
Stan Steiner | La Raza: The Mexican Americans | |
Anthony Wallace | The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca | |
1972 | George M. Fredrickson | The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817 | |
John S. Haller | Outcasts from Evolution: Scientific Attitudes of Racial Inferiority, 1859-1900 | |
Donald L. Robinson | Slavery in the Structure of American Politics, 1765-1820 | |
David Loye | The Healing of a Nation | |
Naboth Mokgatle | The Autobiography of an Unknown South African | |
1973 | Pat Conroy | The Water Is Wide | |
Betty Fladeland | Men & Brothers | |
Lee Rainwater | Behind Ghetto Walls: Black Family Life in a Federal Slum | |
1974 | Louis Leo Snyder | The Dreyfus Case: A Documentary History | |
Charles Duguid | Doctor and the Aborigines | |
Michel Fabre | The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright | |
Albie Sachs | Justice in South Africa | |
1975 | Eugene D. Genovese | Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made | |
Leon Poliakov | The Aryan Myth: A History of Racist and Nationalistic Ideas In Europe | |
1976 | Lucy S. Dawidowicz | The War Against the Jews: 1933-1945 | |
Thomas Kiernan | The Arabs: Their History, Aims, and Challenge to the Industrialized World | |
Raphael Patai and Jennifer P. Wing | The Myth of the Jewish Race | |
1977 | Richard Kluger | Simple Justice: A History of Brown v. Board of Education & Black America's Struggle for Equality | |
Michi Weglyn | Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America's Concentration Camps | |
1978 | Maxine Hong Kingston | The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts | |
Allan Chase | The Legacy of Malthus: The Social Costs of the New Scientific Racism | |
1979 | Phillip V. Tobias | The Bushmen: San Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa | |
1980 | Richard Borshay Lee | The !Kung San: Men, Women and Work in a Foraging Society | |
Urie Bronfenbrenner | The Ecology of Human Development: Experiments by Nature and Design | |
1981 | Carol Beckwith and Tepilit Ole Saitoti | Maasai | |
Jamake Highwater | Song from the Earth: American Indian painting | |
1982 | Geoffrey G. Field | Evangelist of Race: The Germanic Vision of Houston Stewart Chamberlain | |
Peter J. Powell | People of the Sacred Mountain | |
1983 | Richard Rodriguez | Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez | |
Wole Soyinka | Aké: The Years of Childhood | |
1984 | Jose Alcina Franch | Pre-Columbian Art | |
Humbert S. Nelli | From Immigrants to Ethnics: The Italian Americans | |
1985 | David S. Wyman | The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945 | |
1986 | Donald Alexander Downs | Nazis in Skokie: Freedom, Community and the First Amendment | |
James North | Freedom Rising | |
Barton Wright and Clifford Bahnimptewa | Kachinas: A Hopi Artist's Documentary | |
1987 | Arnold Rampersad | The Life of Langston Hughes | |
Gail Sheehy | Spirit of Survival | |
1988 | Jeffrey Jay Foxx and Walter F. Morris Jr. | Living Maya | |
Abigail M. Thernstrom | Whose Votes Count?: Affirmative Action and Minority Voting Rights | |
1989 | Henry Louis Gates Jr. | The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers | |
Taylor Branch | Parting the Waters: America in the King Years | |
George Lipsitz | A Life In The Struggle: Ivory Perry and the Culture of Opposition | |
Peter Sutton | Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia | |
1990 | Hugh Honour | The Image of the Black in Western Art: Part 1 | |
1991 | Walter A. Jackson | Gunnar Myrdal and America's Conscience: Social Engineering and Racial Liberalism, 1938-1987 | |
Forrest G. Wood | The Arrogance Of Faith: Christianity and Race in America | |
Carol Beckwith, Angela Fisher, and Graham Hancock | African Ark: People and Ancient Cultures of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa | |
1992 | Melissa Fay Greene | Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction | |
Peter Hayes | Lessons and Legacies I: The Meaning of the Holocaust in a Changing World | |
Elaine Mensh and Harry Mensh | The IQ Mythology: Class, Race, Gender, and Inequality | |
Marilyn Nelson | The Homeplace | |
1993 | Kwame Anthony Appiah | In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture | |
Marija Alseikaite Gimbutas | The Civilization of the Goddess | |
1994 | David Levering Lewis | W. E. B. Du Bois: A Reader | |
Ronald Takaki | A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America | |
1995 | William H. Tucker | The Science and Politics of Racial Research | |
Brent Staples | Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White | |
1996 | Jonathan Kozol | Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation | |
1997 | James McBride | The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother | |
1998 | Toi Derricotte | The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey | [18] |
1999 | John Lewis and Michael D'Orso | Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (about the American Civil Rights Movement) | |
2000 | Edward W. Said | Out of Place: A Memoir | |
2001 | David Levering Lewis | W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919–1963 | |
F. X. Toole | Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner | |
2002 | Vernon E. Jordan Jr. and Annette Gordon-Reed | Vernon Can Read!: A Memoir | |
Quincy Jones | Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones | |
2003 | Samantha Power | A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide | |
2004 | Adrian Nicole LeBlanc | Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx | |
Ira Berlin | Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves | |
2005 | A. Van Jordan | Macnolia: Poems | |
Geoffrey C. Ward | Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson | |
2006 | Jill Lepore | New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan | |
2007 | Scott Reynolds Nelson | Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry: the Untold Story of an American Legend | |
2008 | Ayaan Hirsi Ali | Infidel: My Life[a] | [3] |
2009 | Annette Gordon-Reed | The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family | |
2011 | David Eltis and David Richardson | Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade | |
Isabel Wilkerson | The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration | |
2012 | David Livingstone Smith | Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others | [19] |
David Blight | American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era |
2013 | Andrew Solomon | Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity | |
2014 | Ari Shavit | My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel | [4] |
2015 | Richard S. Dunn | A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Virginia and Jamaica | [5] |
2016 | Lillian Faderman | The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle | [6] |
Brian Seibert | What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing |
2017 | Margot Lee Shetterly | Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race | [7] |
2018 | Kevin Young | Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News | [8] |
2019 | Andrew Delbanco | The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War | [9] |
2020 | Charles King | Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century | [10][11] |
2021 | Vincent Brown | Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of An Atlantic Slave War | [12] |
Natasha Trethewey | Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir |
2022 | Tiya Miles | All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake | [13][14] |
George Makari | Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia |
2023 | Matthew F. Delmont | Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad[20] |