James A. Rawley Prize (OAH)

For the prize offered by the American Historical Association (AHA), see James A. Rawley Prize (AHA).

The James A. Rawley Prize is given by the Organization of American Historians (OAH), for the best book on race relations in the United States. The prize is given in memory of James A. Rawley, Carl Adolph Happold Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.[1]

Year Winner OAH Rawley Prize Title of OAH Rawley Prize Affiliation
1990 Kenneth L. Karstbio Belonging to America: Equal Citizenship and the Constitution (Yale University Press) UCLA School of Law
1991 Douglas Monroybio Thrown Among Strangers: The Making of Mexican Culture in Frontier California (University of California Press) Colorado College
1992 co-winner Richard White The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650–1815 (Cambridge University Press) Stanford University
1992 co-winner Ramón A. Gutiérrez When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500–1846 (Stanford University Press) University of California, San Diego
1993 Edward L. Ayers The Promise of the New South: Life After Reconstruction (Oxford University Press) University of Virginia
1994 Michael K. Honeybio Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers (University of Illinois Press)
1995 Nancy MacLeanbio Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan (Oxford University Press) Northwestern University
1996 Peter W. Bardagliobio Reconstructing the Household: Families, Sex, and the Law in the Nineteenth Century South (University of North Carolina Press) Goucher College
1997 Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore Gender and Jim Crow: Women and the Politics of White Supremacy in North Carolina, 1896–1920 (University of North Carolina Press) Yale University
1998 Daryl Michael Scottbio Contempt and Pity: Social Policy and the Image of the Damaged Black Psyche, 1880–1996 (University of North Carolina Press) Columbia University
1999 Brian Wardbio Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness, and Race Relations (University of California Press) University of Newcastle upon Tyne
2000 Timothy B. Tyson Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power (University of North Carolina Press) University of Wisconsin–Madison
2001 Sherry L. Smith Reimagining Indians: Native Americans through Anglo Eyes 1880–1940 (Oxford University Press) Southern Methodist University
2002 co-winner J. William Harrisbio Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont and Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation (Johns Hopkins University Press) University of New Hampshire
2002 co-winner David W. Blight Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory (Harvard University Press) Amherst College
2003 co-winner Sharla M. Fettbio Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations (University of North Carolina Press) Occidental College
2003 co-winner Shane Whitebio Stories of Freedom in Black New York (University of North Carolina Press) University of Sydney
2004 Barbara Ransby Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (University of North Carolina Press) University of Illinois at Chicago
2005 Robert O. Self bio American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland (Princeton University Press) Brown University
2006 James Edward Smethurstbio The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s (University of North Carolina Press) University of Massachusetts Amherst
2007 Paul A. Kramerbio The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines (University of North Carolina Press) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2008 Susan Eva O'Donovanbio Becoming Free in the Cotton South (Harvard University Press) Harvard University
2009 Vincent Brown The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery (Harvard University Press) Harvard University
2010 Julie Greene The Canal Builders: Making America's Empire at the Panama Canal (The Penguin Press) University of Maryland, College Park
2011 Daniel Martinez HoSang Racial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California (University of California Press) University of Oregon
2012 Cindy Hahamovitch No Man's Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor (Princeton University Press) College of William & Mary
2013 Laura Briggs Somebody's Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption (Duke University Press) University of Massachusetts Amherst
2014 Brenda E. Stevenson The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender, and the Origins of the LA Riots (Oxford University Press) University of California
2015 Daniel Berger Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era (The University of North Carolina Press) University of Washington, Bothell
2016 Margaret Ellen Newell Brethren By Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery (Cornell University Press) Ohio State University
2017 Robert G. Parkinson The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution (The University of North Carolina Press) Binghamton University
2018 co-winner Kelly Lytle Hernández City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771–1965 (The University of North Carolina Press) UCLA
2018 co-winner Tiya Miles The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits (The New Press) University of Michigan
2019 Jeffrey C. Stewart The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke (Oxford University Press) University of California, Santa Barbara
2020 Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Home Ownership (The University of North Carolina Press) Princeton University
2021 Vincent Brown Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press) Harvard University
2022 Destin Jenkins The Bonds of Inequality: Debt and the Making of the American City (University of Chicago Press) Stanford University
2023 Michael Witgen Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion, and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and University of North Carolina Press) Columbia University
2024 Kevin Kenny The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century United States (Oxford University Press) New York University

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References

  1. ^ "Organization of American Historians (OAH) James A. Rawley Prize". The Organization of American Historians: Programs & Resources: OAH Awards and Prizes. The Organization of American Historians. Retrieved 2013-11-12.