1999 Award-Winning Books
Chanting Down Babylon
The Rastafari Reader
467 pages
7 x 10
1 table 1 figure
PB: 978-1-56639-584-7 $43.95 Mar 98
HC: 978-1-56639-583-0 $69.95 Mar 98
Philadelphia Book Clinic Certificate of Award, 1999
The First Suburban Chinatown
The Remaking of Monterey Park, California
240 pages
6 x 9
14 tables, 2 figs., 8 halftones
PB: 978-1-56639-262-4 $35.95 Jul 94
HC: 978-1-56639-123-8 $85.50 Jan 94
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0463-3 $35.95
Donald H. Pflueger Local History Award, Historical Society of Southern California, 1999
Outstanding Book Award in the Social Sciences, Association for Asian American Studies, 1995
Holy Leisure
Recreation and Religion in God's Square Mile
192 pages
6 x 9
26 halftones
PB: 978-1-56639-841-1 $30.95 Jul 00
Winner of the the Outstanding New Book on New Jersey award from the New Jersey Historical Alliance, 1999
Legal Bases
Baseball and the Law
240 pages
6 x 9
PB: 978-1-56639-890-9 $32.95
HC: 978-1-56639-599-1 $29.50 Feb 98
Philadelphia Book Clinic Certificate of Award, 1999
Mexican American Women Activists
Identity and Resistance in Two Los Angeles Communities
322 pages
5.5 x 8.25
1 figs., 12 halftones, 1 maps
PB: 978-1-56639-573-1 $32.95 Jun 98
HC: 978-1-56639-572-4 $74.50 Jun 98
Honorable Mention for Outstanding Books Awards, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America, 1999
Orientals
Asian Americans in Popular Culture
288 pages
6 x 9
PB: 978-1-56639-753-7 $30.95 Apr 00
Best Book Award Winner Culture Studies/Popular Culture, Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association, 2000
Best Book Award for the Social Construction of Race, The American Political Science Association, 1999
Honorable Mention for the John Hope Franklin Publication Prize for the best-published book in American Studies from the American Studies Association, 1999
Paradise, New York
A Novel
288 pages
5 x 9
PB: 978-1-56639-789-6 $27.95 Apr 00
HC: 978-1-56639-657-8 $69.50 Oct 98
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0403-9 $27.95 Oct 98
Philadelphia Book Clinic Certificate of Award, 1999
The Possessive Investment in Whiteness
How White People Profit from Identity Politics
Revised and Expanded Edition
312 pages
6 x 9
PB: 978-1-59213-494-6 $31.95 Mar 06
HC: 978-1-59213-493-9 $91.50 Mar 06
Ebook: 978-1-59213-495-3 $31.95 Mar 06
Outstanding Books Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America, 1999
The Puerto Rican Movement
Voices from the Diaspora
432 pages
6 x 9
15 halftones
PB: 978-1-56639-618-9 $36.95 Jul 98
HC: 978-1-56639-617-2 $69.95 Jul 98
Outstanding Books Award, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America, 1999
Q & A
Queer in Asian America
445 pages
7 x 10
PB: 978-1-56639-640-0 $45.95 Aug 98
HC: 978-1-56639-639-4 $85.50 Aug 98
Ebook: 978-1-4399-1907-1 $45.95 Dec 18
Book Award from The Association for Asian American Studies, 2001
Honorable Mention for Outstanding Books Awards, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America, 1999
Lambda Literary Award for Best Book in Lesbian and Gay Anthologies/Non-Fiction, 1998
The Red Atlantis
Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism
326 pages
5 x 9
PB: 978-1-56639-767-4 $32.95 Apr 00
HC: 978-1-56639-643-1 $84.50 Nov 98
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 1999
Philadelphia Book Clinic Certificate of Award, 1999
Association of American University Presses Book Jacket Award, 1999
The Trial Lawyer's Art
264 pages
6 x 9
PB: 978-1-56639-799-5 $33.95 May 00
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 1999
Voice Over
The Making of Black Radio
334 pages
6 x 9
21 halftones
PB: 978-1-56639-667-7 $33.95 Dec 98
HC: 978-1-56639-666-0 $63.50 Dec 98
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0688-0 $33.95
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 1999
The Wild Animal Story
328 pages
6 x 9
4 figs., 15 halftones
PB: 978-1-56639-918-0 $30.95 Aug 01
HC: 978-1-56639-593-9 $81.50 Apr 98
Ebook: 978-1-4399-0150-2 $30.95 Aug 01
Association of American University Presses Book Jacket Award, 1999
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