Award-Winning Books: Celebrating our 50th Anniversary
The Afrocentric Idea
Revised and Expanded Edition
256 pages
5.5 x 8.2
PB: 978-1-56639-595-3 $28.95 Dec 97
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0562-3 $28.95 Dec 97
Molefi Kete Asante, recipient of the 2019 Distinguished Scholar Award from the National Communication Association
Behind the Backlash
Muslim Americans after 9/11
230 pages
6 x 9
1 tables, 3 figs.
PB: 978-1-59213-983-5 $30.95 Oct 10
HC: 978-1-59213-982-8 $86.50 Oct 10
Ebook: 978-1-59213-984-2 $30.95 Oct 10
Best Book Award from the American Sociological Association's section on Altruism, Morality, and Social Solidarity, 2013
Midwest Sociological Society Distinguished Book Award, 2012
Beyond Preservation
Using Public History to Revitalize Inner Cities
248 pages
6 x 9
3 maps 14 halftones
PB: 978-1-4399-0229-5 $33.95 May 10
HC: 978-1-4399-0228-8 $86.50 May 10
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0230-1 $33.95 May 10
National Council on Public History's Book Award Award, 2012
The Black Female Body
A Photographic History
240 pages
9 x 12
26 color illustrations, 185 duotones
HC: 978-1-56639-928-9 $64.00 Jan 02
Finalist for the Publishers Marketing Association's Ben Franklin Award, Reference Category, 2003
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2002
National Gold Ink Bronze Award, 2002
Boathouse Row
Waves of Change in the Birthplace of American Rowing
288 pages
10 x 8
63 color photos, 3 line drawings, 110 halftones
HC: 978-1-4399-1282-9 $35.00 Oct 16
The Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia 2018 Preservation Education Award
The Cost of Being a Girl
Working Teens and the Origins of the Gender Wage Gap
208 pages
6 x 9
11 tables, 8 line drawings
PB: 978-1-4399-1349-9 $27.95 Dec 17
HC: 978-1-4399-1348-2 $94.50 Dec 17
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1350-5 $27.95 Dec 17
Honorable Mention from the National Women's Studies Association for the Sara A. Whaley Book Prize, 2018
Envisioning Emancipation
Black Americans and the End of Slavery
240 pages
7 x 10
150 halftones
PB: 978-1-4399-0986-7 $24.95 Feb 17
HC: 978-1-4399-0985-0 $59.50 Feb 13
Winner of the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work—Non-Fiction, 2014
One of the Top 25 Outstanding Academic Titles, Choice, 2013
Fireweed
A Political Autobiography
408 pages
7 x 10
24 halftones
PB: 978-1-59213-236-2 $29.95 Aug 03
HC: 978-1-56639-889-3 $76.50 Mar 02
Outstanding Achievement Recognition by the Wisconsin Library Association Literary Awards Committee, 2003
A BookSense top 76 pick in the category, "Life Stories of Some Famous and Not-So-Famous Women," March/April 2003
A PW Book of the Day, June 2002
From Black Power to Hip Hop
Racism, Nationalism, and Feminism
256 pages
6 x 9
PB: 978-1-59213-092-4 $27.95 Jan 06
HC: 978-1-59213-091-7 $71.50 Jan 06
Ebook: 978-1-59213-790-9 $27.95 Jan 06
Honorable Mention at the 2006 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Awards
Hapa Girl
A Memoir
232 pages
5.5 x 8.25
12 halftones
PB: 978-1-59213-616-2 $26.95 Oct 08
HC: 978-1-59213-615-5 $66.50 Mar 07
Ebook: 978-1-59213-617-9 $26.95 Mar 07
Named one of the Notable Books in the Kiriyama Prize, 2008
Honorable Mention at the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Awards, 2007
Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts
Charting the Future of Teaching the Past
272 pages
6 x 9
8 tables 3 figures 3 halftones
PB: 978-1-56639-856-5 $30.95 Mar 01
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0301-8 $30.95 Mar 01
Winner of the Frederic W. Ness Award, The Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2002
I Walked with Giants
The Autobiography of Jimmy Heath
344 pages
6 x 9
35 halftones
HC: 978-1-4399-0198-4 $39.50 Jan 10
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0200-4 $39.50
Best Book of the Year from the Jazz Journalists Association, 2011
The Man-Not
Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood
298 pages
6 x 9
PB: 978-1-4399-1486-1 $34.95 Jun 17
HC: 978-1-4399-1485-4 $99.50 Jun 17
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1487-8 $34.95 Jun 17
The Before Columbus Foundation 2018 Winner of the Thirty-Ninth Annual AMERICAN BOOK AWARD
The New York Young Lords and the Struggle for Liberation
248 pages
6 x 9
11 figs., 6 halftones
PB: 978-1-4399-1203-4 $30.95 Jul 15
HC: 978-1-4399-1202-7 $85.50 Jul 15
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1204-1 $30.95 Jul 15
National Communication Association Critical and Cultural Division Book of the Year 2017
Out in the Union
A Labor History of Queer America
240 pages
6 x 9
PB: 978-1-4399-1140-2 $30.95 Jan 15
HC: 978-1-4399-1139-6 $55.50 Jun 14
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1141-9 $30.95 Jun 14
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2015
Miriam Frank,recipient of the New York Labor History Association's John Commerford Labor Education Award, 2019
Philadelphia Murals and the Stories They Tell
160 pages
9 x 11
HC: 978-1-56639-951-7 $39.50 Nov 02
Athenæum of Philadelphia’s Literary Award, 2004
Silent Gesture
The Autobiography of Tommie Smith
288 pages
6 x 9
16 halftones
PB: 978-1-59213-640-7 $27.95 Apr 08
HC: 978-1-59213-639-1 $71.50 Jan 07
Ebook: 978-1-59213-641-4 $27.95 Jan 07
Author Tommie Smith received the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the ESPYs, 2008
Named one of two “Adult Nonfiction Honor Books” by The Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA)., 2008
Nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the category “Outstanding Literary Work – Biography/Autobiography”, 2008
Still Philadelphia
A Photographic History, 1890-1940
312 pages
8 x 10
282 halftones
HC: 978-0-87722-306-1 $46.50 Mar 83
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0761-0 $46.50 Mar 83
Philadelphia Book Clinic Certificate of Award, 1984
Terrorizing Latina/o Immigrants
Race, Gender, and Immigration Politics in the Age of Security
236 pages
6 x 9
1 tables, 1 halftones
PB: 978-1-4399-1286-7 $30.95 Sep 15
HC: 978-1-4399-1285-0 $76.50 Sep 15
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1287-4 $30.95 Sep 15
American Political Science Association's Latino Politics Best Book Prize, 2016
There Goes the 'Hood
Views of Gentrification from the Ground Up
248 pages
6 x 9
PB: 978-1-59213-437-3 $31.95 Jun 06
HC: 978-1-59213-436-6 $81.50 Jun 06
Ebook: 978-1-59213-438-0 $31.95 Jun 06
Winner of the Urban Affairs Association Best Book Award, 2007
Undocumented Fears
Immigration and the Politics of Divide and Conquer in Hazleton, Pennsylvania
226 pages
6 x 9
1 halftones
PB: 978-1-4399-1268-3 $28.95 Feb 16
HC: 978-1-4399-1267-6 $89.50 Feb 16
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1269-0 $28.95 Feb 16
North Central Sociological Association's scholarly achievement awards, 2017
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