Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award Winners

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Winners

	The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 6,986 ratings Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Drifting Toward Love: Black, Brown, Gay, and Coming of Age on the Streets of New York by Kai Wright 4.48 avg rating — 50 ratings Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bringing Human Rights Home [3 volumes]: 3 volumes by Cynthia Soohoo liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Everyday Antiracism: Getting Real About Race in School by Mica Pollock 4.29 avg rating — 552 ratings Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill 4.46 avg rating — 84,203 ratings Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bella Abzug: How One Tough Broad from the Bronx Fought Jim Crow and Joe McCarthy, Pissed Off Jimmy Carter, Battled for the Rights of Women and ... Planet, and Shook Up Politics Along the Way by Suzanne Braun Levine 4.04 avg rating — 96 ratings Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Asylum Denied: A Refugee's Struggle for Safety in America by David Ngaruri Kenney 4.03 avg rating — 294 ratings Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ida: A Sword Among Lions by Paula J. Giddings 4.26 avg rating — 898 ratings Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon 4.38 avg rating — 6,555 ratings Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington 4.42 avg rating — 7,711 ratings Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cost of Privilege: Taking On the System of White Supremacy and Racism by Chip Smith 3.76 avg rating — 37 ratings Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Getting It by Alex Sanchez (Goodreads Author) 3.78 avg rating — 1,888 ratings Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anti-Arab Racism in the USA: Where It Comes From and What It Means For Politics Today by Steven Salaita really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 24 ratings Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Clinging to Mammy: The Faithful Slave in Twentieth-Century America by Micki McElya 4.17 avg rating — 46 ratings Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dancing on Live Embers; Challenging Racism in Organizations by Barb Thomas really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Secret Powers of Naming (Volume 58) (Sun Tracks) by Sara Littlecrow-russell 4.26 avg rating — 27 ratings Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex by Incite! Women of Color Against Violence (Editor) 4.28 avg rating — 2,240 ratings Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route by Saidiya Hartman 4.26 avg rating — 1,924 ratings Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin's Theory by Kenny Fries 3.93 avg rating — 58 ratings Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson 4.32 avg rating — 12,242 ratings Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lighting the Way: Nine Women Who Changed Modern America by Karenna Gore Schiff 4.04 avg rating — 119 ratings Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Are All Suspects Now: Untold Stories from Immigrant Communities After 9/11 by Tram Nguyen 4.05 avg rating — 106 ratings Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Creating Black Americans: African-American History and Its Meanings, 1619 to the Present by Nell Irvin Painter 4.33 avg rating — 150 ratings Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty by Annelise Orleck 4.32 avg rating — 257 ratings Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace by Nancy MacLean 3.97 avg rating — 77 ratings Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America by Matthew Frye Jacobson 3.98 avg rating — 46 ratings Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What If All the Kids Are White?: Anti-bias Multicultural Education With Young Children And Families (Early Childhood Education Series) by Louise Derman-Sparks 4.07 avg rating — 95 ratings Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide by Meizhu Lui 4.22 avg rating — 166 ratings Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights by Kenji Yoshino 4.13 avg rating — 1,446 ratings Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (2006)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Undivided Rights: Women of Color Organizing for Reproductive Justice by Loretta J. Ross 4.33 avg rating — 238 ratings Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (2005)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars