Award Winning Books: 1997

African Intellectual Heritage

A Book of Sources

edited by Molefi Kete Asante and Abu S. Abarry

Philadelphia Book Clinic Certificate of Award, 1997

Molefi Kete Asante, recipient of the 2019 Distinguished Scholar Award from the National Communication Association

This comprehensive volume brings together documents from the richly textured intellectual history of Africa and the diaspora

848 pages | 7 x 10

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Critical White Studies

Looking Behind the Mirror

Edited by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic

Honorable Mention for Outstanding Books Awards, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America, 1997

Over 100 closely edited selections critically examine the notion of whiteness and its relation to social power

704 pages | 7 x 10

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Family Ties

Enduring Relations between Parents and Their Grown Children

John R. Logan and Glenna D. Spitze

William J. Goode Distinguished Book Award, Sponsored by the Family Section of the American Sociological Association, 1997

A challenging look at the way relationships between parents and their adult children remain strong in the midst of social change

304 pages | 6 x 9 | 61 tables, 25 figs.

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Mickey Mouse History and Other Essays on American Memory

Mike Wallace

Historic Preservation Book Prize, The Center for Historic Preservation at Mary Washington College, 1997

A long-awaited dispatch from the history front in today's culture war

336 pages | 6 x 9 | 5 figs., 10 halftones

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Nisei/Sansei

Shifting Japanese American Identities and Politics

Jere Takahashi

Honorable Mention for Outstanding Books Awards, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America, 1997

A fresh look at the many and diverse political strategies that forged a Japanese American identity

280 pages | 6 x 9 | 1 tables

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Nuclear Power and Social Power

Rick Eckstein

Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 1997

A critical examination of the Shoreham and Seabrook nuclear power plants and the way expensive corporate initiatives purported as good for social "progress" or "economic growth" actually serve the parochial interests of powerful organizations and classes

208 pages | 5.5 x 8.25 | 1 tables

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