Hurston/Wright Legacy AwardNonfiction

Given by Hurston/Wright Foundation

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The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award™ is the first national award presented to published writers of African descent by the national community of Black writers. This award consists of prizes for the mostrar más highest quality writing in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry. mostrar menos
Stages:
Todos, Winner (77), Finalist (17), Nominee (295)
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Years:
Todos, 2022 (1), 2021 (1), 2020 (6), 2019 (6), 2018 (4), 2017 (6), 2016 (6), 2014 (6), 2013 (6), 2012 (5), 2011 (5), 2010 (5), 2009 (5), 2008 (5), 2007 (5), 2006 (5), 2005 (5), 2004 (5), 2003 (4), 2002 (5)

Winner 9

ObraAño
Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War por Howard W. French2022
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America por Marcia Chatelain2021
Solitary por Albert Woodfox2020
May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem por Imani Perry2019
The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits por Tiya Miles2018
Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America por Kali Nicole Gross2017
Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga por Pamela Newkirk2016
The Price of the Ticket: Barack Obama and Rise and Decline of Black Politics por Frederick Harris2013
Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement por Tomiko Brown-Nagin2012

Nominee 87

ObraAño
Open Season: The Systemic Legalization of Discrimination por Ben Crump2020
Think Black: A Memoir por Clyde W. Ford2020
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals por Saidiya Hartman2020
We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood por Dani McClain2020
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays por Damon Young2020
Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster por Stephen L. Carter2019
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower por Brittney C. Cooper2019
Tigerland: 1968-1969: A City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of Healing por Wil Haygood2019
Heavy: An American Memoir por Kiese Laymon2019
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke por Jeffrey C. Stewart2019
Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A. por Danielle S. Allen2018
Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy por Sheryll Cashin2018
Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History por Camille T. Dungy2018
The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice por Patricia Bell-Scott2017
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America por Ibram X. Kendi2017
The Social Life of DNA: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation After the Genome por Alondra Nelson2017
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being por Christina Sharpe2017
Another Day in the Death of America por Gary Younge2017
The Light of the World: A Memoir por Elizabeth Alexander2016
Confronting Black Jacobins: The U.S., the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic por Gerald Horne2016
Where Everybody Looks Like Me: At the Crossroads of America's Black Colleges and Culture por Ron Stodghill2016
Infectious Madness: The Surprising Science of How We "Catch" Mental Illness por Harriet A. Washington2016
The Beast Side: Living (and Dying) While Black in America por D. Watkins2016
Nine Years Under: Coming of Age in an Inner-City Funeral Home por Sheri Booker2014
Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker por Stanley Crouch2014
The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights por William P. Jones2014
Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora por Emily Raboteau2014
Men We Reaped por Jesmyn Ward2014
Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities por Craig Steven Wilder2014
There Was A Country: A Personal History of Biafra por Chinua Achebe2013
Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City por Natalie Hopkinson2013
Exit: The Endings That Set Us Free por Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot2013
The End of American Lynching por Ashraf H. A. Rushdy2013
Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery por Heather Andrea Williams2013
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America por Melissa V. Harris-Perry2012
Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America por Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts2012
Algún día escribiré sobre África por Binyavanga Wainaina2012
My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir por Mark Whitaker2012
John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism por Keith Gilyard2011
The Indignant Generation: A Narrative History of African American Writers and Critics, 1934-1960 por Lawrence P. Jackson2011
Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, and the Struggle to End Segregation por Rawn James Jr.2011
Brainwashed: How Universities Indoctrinate America's Youth por Ben Shapiro2011
Losing My Cool: How a Father's Love and 15,000 Books Beat Hip-hop Culture por Thomas Chatterton Williams2011
Freedom by Any Means: Con Games, Voodoo Schemes, True Love and Lawsuits on the Underground Railroad por Betty DeRamus2010
Sweet Thunder: the Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson por Wil Haygood2010
The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama por Gwen Ifill2010
Remembering Scottsboro: The Legacy of an Infamous Trial por James A. Miller2010
More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City por William Julius Wilson2010
The Agitator's Daughter: A Memoir of Four Generations of One Extraordinary African-American Family por Sheryll Cashin2009
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood por Ta-Nehisi Coates2009
Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and Into Legend por Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina2009
Ida: A Sword Among Lions por Paula J. Giddings2009
Somebody Scream!: Rap Music's Rise to Prominence in the Aftershock of Black Power por Marcus Reeves2009
The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why por Jabari Asim2008
Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America, por Sylviane A. Diouf2008
Mi Vida, Mi Libertad/ My Life, My Liberty por Ayaan Hirsi Ali2008
The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade por Gerald Horne2008
On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-first Century por Sherrilyn A. Ifill2008
The Last 'Darky': Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora (A John Hope Franklin Center Book) por Louis Chude-Sokei2007
Before the Legend: The Rise of Bob Marley por Christopher John Farley2007
BookMarks: Reading in Black and White: A Memoir por Karla F. C. Holloway2007
The Skin Between Us: A Memoir of Race, Beauty, and Belonging por Kym Ragusa2007
The River Flows on: Black Resistance, Culture, And Identity Formation in Early America por Walter C. Rucker2007
My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations por Mary Frances Berry2006
Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams: The Story of Black Hollywood por Donald Bogle2006
Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists por Lisa E. Farrington2006
Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays On Race and Sexuality (Sexual Cultures Series) por Dwight A. McBride2006
Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers, Lineage, and Literary Tradition por Cheryl A. Wall2006
The Black Interior por Elizabeth Alexander2005
The Failures Of Integration: How Race and Class Are Undermining the American Dream por Sheryll Cashin2005
Bone to Pick: Of Forgiveness, Reconciliation, Reparation, and Revenge por Ellis Cose2005
The End of Blackness por Debra J. Dickerson2005
A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa por Howard W. French2005
Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston por Valerie Boyd2004
Mandela, Mobutu, and Me: A Newswoman's African Journey por Lynne Duke2004
Always Wear Joy: My Mother Bold and Beautiful por Susan Fales-Hill2004
Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity por E. Patrick Johnson2004
Somebody's Someone: A Memoir por Regina Louise2004
Passed On: African American Mourning Stories: A Memorial por Karla F. C. Holloway2003
Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius por Lawrence Jackson2003
The Herndons: An Atlanta Family por Carole Merritt2003
American Skin: Pop Culture, Big Business, and the End of White America por Leon E. Wynter2003
On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker por A'Lelia Bundles2002
Raising Fences: A Black Man's Love Story por Michael Datcher2002
Salvation: Black People and Love por bell hooks2002
Impossible witnesses : truth, abolitionism, and slave testimony por Dwight A. McBride2002
The Undiscovered Paul Robeson: An Artist's Journey, 1898-1939 por Paul Robeson2002

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The Hurston/Wright Legacy Award™ is the first national award presented to published writers of African descent by the national community of Black writers. This award consists of prizes for the highest quality writing in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry. (English, Escritos por miembros)
The Hurston/Wright Legacy Awards annually honor published works of fiction, nonfiction and poetry by Black writers published in the previous year. Recognized as a singular award from the Black writing community to its peers, the Legacy Awards each year recognizes members of the national and international Black writing community. (English, Escritos por miembros)

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