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AMERICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION AWARDS CEREMONY (2011)
The Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize was established in 2002
and is awarded annually for the best-published first book in American
Studies that highlights the intersections of race with gender, class,
sexuality and/or nation.
The 2011 prizewinner is Cynthia M. Blair, I've Got to Make My Livin':
Black Women's Sex Work in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago (University of
Chicago Press, 2010).
Finalist mentions go to:
David Chang, The Color of the Land: Race, Nation, and the Politics
of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929 (University of North Carolina
Press, 2010)
Kelly Lytle Hernández, Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol.
(University of California Press. 2010)
Students in Evan Roberts freshman seminar are immersing themselves in a different time and place -- 19th century Chicago.
Continue reading MN Daily: Students go back in time to 19th century Chicago
December 16th, 2011Western History Association has awarded the Caughey Western History Prize to Erika Lee for her book, Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America.
December 8th, 2011