Year Author Title Ref. 1936 Harold Foote Gosnell Negro Politicians: Rise of Negro Politics in Chicago 1937 Julian Huxley A. C. Haddon We Europeans: A Survey of "Racial" Problems 1939 Ralph J. Bunche An Analysis of the Political, Economic and Social Status of the Non-European Peoples in South Africa Charles S. Johnson The Negro College Graduate 1940 Edward Franklin Frazier The Negro Family in the United States 1941 Louis Adamic From Many Lands 1942 James G. Leyburn The Haitian People Leopold Infeld Quest: An Autobiography 1943 Zora Neale Hurston Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography 1944 Roi Ottley New World A-Coming Maurice Samuel The World of Sholom Aleichem 1945 Gunnar Myrdal An American Dilemma 1946 St. Clair Drake Horace Cayton Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City Wallace Stegner Look One Nation 1947 Pauline R. Kibbe Latin Americans in Texas 1948 John Collier The Indians of the Americas 1949 J.C. Furnas Anatomy of Paradise 1950 S. Andhil Fineberg Punishment Without Crime Shirley Graham Your Most Humble Servant 1951 Henry Gibbs Twilight in South Africa 1952 Laurens Van Der Post Venture to the Interior Brewton Berry Race Relations 1953 Farley Mowat People of the Deer Han Suyin A Many-Splendoured Thing 1954 Vernon Bartlett Struggle for Africa 1955 Oden Meeker Report on Africa Lyle Saunders Cultural Differences and Medical Care 1956 John P. Dean A Manual of Intergroup Relations George W. Shepherd They Wait in Darkness 1957 Father Trevor Huddleston Naught for Your Comfort Gilberto Freyre The Masters and the Slaves: A Study in the Development of Brazilian Civilization 1958 South African Institute of Race Relations Handbook on Race Relations Jessie B. Sams White Mother 1959 Martin Luther King Jr. Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story George Eaton Simpson J. Milton Yinger Racial and Cultural Minorities: An Analysis of Prejudice and Discrimination 1960 John Haynes Holmes I Speak for Myself Basil Davidson The Lost Cities of Africa 1961 E. R. Braithwaite To Sir, With Love Louis E. Lomax The Reluctant African 1962 Dwight L. Dumond Antislavery: The Crusade for Freedom in America John Howard Griffin Black Like Me 1963 Theodosius Dobzhansky Mankind Evolving 1964 Harold R. Isaacs The New World of Negro Americans Bernard E. Olson Faith and Prejudice Nathan Glazer Daniel P. Moynihan Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians, and Irish of New York City 1965 Milton M. Gordon Assimilation in American Life: The Role of Race, Religion and National Origins James M. McPherson The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction Abram L. Sachar A History of the Jews, Revised Edition James W. Silver Mississippi: The Closed Society 1966 H. C. Baldry The Unity of Mankind in Greek Thought Claude Brown Manchild in the Promised Land Malcolm X Alex Haley The Autobiography of Malcolm X Amram Scheinfeld Your Heredity and Environment 1967 David Brion Davis The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture Oscar Lewis La Vida 1968 Norman Rufus Colin Cohn Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion Robert Coles Children of Crisis: A Study of Courage and Fear Raul Hilberg The Destruction of the European Jews Erich Kahler The Jews among the Nations 1969 E. Earl Baughman W. Grant Dahlstrom Negro and White Children: A Psychological Study in the Rural South Leonard Dinnerstein The Leo Frank Case Stuart Levine Nancy O. Lurie The American Indian Today 1970 Dan T. Carter Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South Vine Deloria Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto Florestan Fernandes The Negro in Brazilian Society Audrie Girdner The Great Betrayal: The Evacuation of the Japanese-Americans during World War II 1971 Robert William July A History of the African People Carleton Mabee Black Freedom: The Nonviolent Abolitionists from 1830 through the Civil War Stan Steiner La Raza: The Mexican Americans Anthony Wallace The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca 1972 George M. Fredrickson The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817 John S. Haller Outcasts from Evolution: Scientific Attitudes of Racial Inferiority, 1859–1900 Donald L. Robinson Slavery in the Structure of American Politics, 1765–1820 David Loye The Healing of a Nation Naboth Mokgatle The Autobiography of an Unknown South African 1973 Pat Conroy The Water Is Wide Betty Fladeland Men & Brothers Lee Rainwater Behind Ghetto Walls: Black Family Life in a Federal Slum 1974 Louis Leo Snyder The Dreyfus Case: A Documentary History Charles Duguid Doctor and the Aborigines Michel Fabre The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright Albie Sachs Justice in South Africa 1975 Eugene D. Genovese Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made Leon Poliakov The Aryan Myth: A History of Racist and Nationalistic Ideas In Europe 1976 Lucy S. Dawidowicz The War Against the Jews: 1933–1945 Thomas Kiernan The Arabs: Their History, Aims, and Challenge to the Industrialized World Raphael Patai The Myth of the Jewish Race 1977 Richard Kluger Simple Justice: A History of Brown v. Board of Education & Black America's Struggle for Equality Michi Weglyn Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America's Concentration Camps 1978 Maxine Hong Kingston The Woman Warrior: Memoirs Of A Girlhood Among Ghosts Allan Chase The Legacy of Malthus: The Social Costs of the New Scientific Racism 1979 Phillip V. Tobias The Bushmen: San Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa 1980 Richard Borshay Lee The !Kung San: Men, Women and Work in a Foraging Society Urie Bronfenbrenner The Ecology of Human Development: Experiments by Nature and Design 1981 Carol Beckwith Maasai Jamake Highwater Song from the Earth: American Indian painting 1982 Geoffrey G. Field Evangelist of Race: The Germanic Vision of Houston Stewart Chamberlain Peter J. Powell People of the Sacred Mountain 1983 Richard Rodriguez Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez Wole Soyinka Aké: The Years of Childhood 1984 Jose Alcina Franch Pre-Columbian Art Humbert S. Nelli From Immigrants to Ethnics: The Italian Americans 1985 David S. Wyman The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941–1945 1986 Donald Alexander Downs Nazis in Skokie: Freedom, Community and the First Amendment James North Freedom Rising Barton Wright Kachinas: A Hopi Artist's Documentary 1987 Arnold Rampersad The Life of Langston Hughes Gail Sheehy Spirit of Survival 1988 Jeffrey Jay Foxx Walter F. Morris Jr. Living Maya Abigail M. Thernstrom Whose Votes Count?: Affirmative Action and Minority Voting Rights 1989 Henry Louis Gates Jr. The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers Taylor Branch Parting the Waters: America in the King Years George Lipsitz A Life In The Struggle: Ivory Perry and the Culture of Opposition Peter Sutton Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia 1990 Hugh Honour The Image of the Black in Western Art: Part 1 1991 Walter A. Jackson Gunnar Myrdal and America's Conscience: Social Engineering and Racial Liberalism, 1938–1987 Forrest G. Wood The Arrogance Of Faith: Christianity and Race in America Carol Beckwith Graham Hancock African Ark: People and Ancient Cultures of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa 1992 Melissa Fay Greene Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction Peter Hayes Lessons and Legacies I: The Meaning of the Holocaust in a Changing World Elaine Mensh The IQ Mythology: Class, Race, Gender, and Inequality Marilyn Nelson The Homeplace 1993 Kwame Anthony Appiah In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture Marija Alseikaite Gimbutas The Civilization of the Goddess 1994 David Levering Lewis W. E. B. Du Bois: A Reader Ronald Takaki A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America 1995 William H. Tucker The Science and Politics of Racial Research Brent Staples Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White 1996 Jonathan Kozol Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation 1997 James McBride The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1998 Toi Derricotte The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey [ 21] 1999 John Lewis Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (about the American Civil Rights Movement) 2000 Edward W. Said Out of Place: A Memoir 2001 David Levering Lewis W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919–1963 F. X. Toole Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner 2002 Vernon E. Jordan Jr. Annette Gordon-Reed Vernon Can Read!: A Memoir Quincy Jones Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones 2003 Samantha Power A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide 2004 Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx Ira Berlin Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves 2005 A. Van Jordan Macnolia: Poems Geoffrey C. Ward Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson 2006 Jill Lepore New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan 2007 Scott Reynolds Nelson Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry: The Untold Story of an American Legend 2008 Ayaan Hirsi Ali Infidel: My Life [ a] [ 3] 2009 Annette Gordon-Reed The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family 2011 David Eltis Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Isabel Wilkerson The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration 2012 David Livingstone Smith Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others [ 4] [ 22] David Blight American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era 2013 Andrew Solomon Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity [ 5] [ 6] 2014 Ari Shavit My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel [ 7] 2015 Richard S. 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