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    Latin Americans in Texas

    Pauline R. Kibbe

    Kibbe called for a constitutional amendment prohibiting segregation and discrimination, the institutionalization of the GNC as a permanent state agency, the abolition of the poll tax, and the reapportionment of school funds. Everett Ross Clinchy, Jr., called the book ‘angry.’

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    East River

    Sholem Asch

    By writing in the language of all Jews about everyday Jewish life, Sholem Asch, along with other pioneers of Yiddish literature, sought to preserve a sense of culture and community among his kinsmen despite their dispersal throughout the world and lack of a common homeland.

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    One Nation

    Wallace Stegner with the Editors of Look

    A decade before the wider white society had begun to think seriously about race relations, Stegner’s work targeted racial prejudice as one of the country’s most profound ills.

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    An American Dilemma

    Gunnar Myrdal

    In addition to framing and amplifying the debate over America’s racial hypocrisy, Myrdal investigated poverty in Asia, served on an international war crimes tribunal following Vietnam, and along with his wife, Alva, helped shape the modern Swedish state.

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    Earth and High Heaven

    Gwethalyn Graham

    With rare perceptiveness, Gwethalyn Graham takes the reader into the lives of Erica Drake and Marc Reiser, whose two worlds are separated by families and conventions. Here is the story of a man and woman who dared earth and high heaven to make their vision real.

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    The World of Sholom Aleichem

    Maurice Samuel

    Life and religion were indivisible for the Kasrielevkites; they did not think of religion as something tagged on to life, something separate, detachable and optional.

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    New World A-Coming

    Roi Ottley

    He parlayed [the success of “New World A-Coming”] into a military commission and a prolonged stint as a war correspondent publishing regularly with the labor newspaper PM as well as the Pittsburgh Courier.

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    The Haitian People

    James G. Leyburn

    The central thesis of the book is that Haitian society is divided into two segments, the yeomanry and the elite, and that the national institutional structure has not allowed any alteration in that division in the course of Haiti’s history as a sovereign nation.

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    Quest

    Leopold Infeld

    In 1950 he left Canada and returned to communist Poland. He felt he had an obligation to help the science in Poland recover from the ravages of the Second World War.

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    From Many Lands

    Louis Adamic

    ‘No more school for me. I was going to America,’ Adamic wrote. ‘I did not know how, but I knew that I would go.’

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    The Negro Family in the United States

    E. Franklin Frazier

    Frazier discussed all the themes that have concerned subsequent students of the African American family, including matriarchy and patriarchy, the impact of slavery on family solidarity and personal identity, the impact of long-term poverty and lack of access to education, migration and rootlessness, and the relationship between family and community.

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    The Ecology of Human Development

    Urie Bronfenbrenner

    The effect is a perspective on the field of human development that is exciting in its possibilities [….] It conveys masterfully the mystery and excitement of scientific investigation.

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    We Europeans

    Julian Huxley

    To counter the rise of Nazism and its racist ideologies, scientists critical of the use of race to justify oppression and discrimination published a number of important works. “We Europeans: A Survey of “Racial” Problems” by Huxley and Haddon, sought to show that science offered a very limited definition of race.

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    Negro Politicians

    Harold F. Gosnell

    By the time of his death in 1997 Gosnell was widely considered to have made quantitative analysis mainstream in political science.

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    July 27, 2011

    The Awards The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards recognize books that have made important contributions to our understanding of racism and our…

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    July 27, 2011

    Guidelines The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award recognizes outstanding works that contribute to our understanding of racism and our appreciation of cultural…

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    My Anisfield-Wolf Awards Ceremony Experience

    September 23, 2010

    Hello everyone! My name is Kevin Ritter and I was the featured young artist at this year’s Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards….

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    Cuyahoga County Public Library Celebrates Anisfield-Wolf

    June 11, 2010

    The Anisfield-Wolf book prize 75th anniversary celebration is in full swing at Cuyahoga County Public Library. Since January, Library staff…

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    75 Years of Opening Minds and Challenging Minds

    April 21, 2010

    The Anisfield-Wolf book prize turns 75 this year. Quite an accomplishment from a shy poet and philanthropist in Cleveland, who…