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- Louis Adamic - From Many Lands
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun
- Elizabeth Alexander - Lifetime Achievement
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Infidel
- Isabel Allende - Lifetime Achievement
- Gina Allen - The Forbidden Man
- Kwame Anthony Appiah - In My Father’s House
- Sholem Asch - East River
- Clifford Bahnimptewa - Kachinas: A Hopi Artist’s Documentary
- H.C. Baldry - The Unity of Mankind in Greek Thought
- Russell Banks - Cloudsplitter
- Vernon Bartlett - Struggle for Africa
- E. Earl Baughman - Negro and White Children: A Psychological Study in the Rural South
- Carol Beckwith - African Ark: People and Ancient Cultures of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa
- Carol Beckwith - Maasai
- Madison Smartt Bell - All Souls’ Rising
- Ira Berlin - Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves
- Brewton Berry - Race Relations
- David W. Blight - American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era
- E.R. Braithwaite - To Sir, With Love
- Taylor Branch - Lifetime Achievement
- Taylor Branch - Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954–63
- Breyten Breytenbach - Mouroir: Mirror Notes of a Novel
- Urie Bronfenbrenner - The Ecology of Human Development
- Gwendolyn Brooks - In the Mecca
- Claude Brown - Manchild in the Promised Land
- Jericho Brown - The New Testament
- Ralph J. Bunche - Non-European Peoples of South Africa
- Dan T. Carter - Scottsboro
- Stephen L. Carter - The Emperor of Ocean Park
- Horace Cayton - Black Metropolis
- Allan Chase - The Legacy of Malthus: The Social Costs of the New Scientific Racism
- Marilyn Chin - Hard Love Province
- Sandra Cisneros - Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
- Lucille Clifton - Lifetime Achievement
- Judith Ortiz Cofer - The Latin Deli
- Norman 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
- John Collier - The Indians of the Americas
- Martha Collins - Blue Front
- Pat Conroy - The Water Is Wide
- W. Grant Dahlstrom - Negro and White Children: A Psychological Study in the Rural South
- Edwidge Danticat - The Dew Breaker
- Basil Davidson - The Lost Cities of Africa
- Peter Ho Davies - The Fortunes
- David Brion Davis - Lifetime Achievement
- David Brion Davis - The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
- Lucy S. Dawidowicz - The War Against the Jews, 1933–1945
- John P. Dean - A Manual of Intergroup Relations
- Andrew Delbanco - The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America’s Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
- Vine Deloria Jr. - Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto
- William Demby - Lifetime Achievement
- Toi Derricotte - The Black Notebooks
- Leonard Dinnerstein - The Leo Frank Case
- Theodosius Dobzhansky - Mankind Evolving: The Evolution of the Human Species
- Donald Alexander Downs - Nazis in Skokie: Freedom, Community and the First Amendment
- St. Clair Drake - Black Metropolis
- Charles Duguid - Doctor and the Aborigines
- Dwight L. Dumond - Antislavery: The Crusade for Freedom in America
- Richard S. Dunn - A Tale of Two Plantations
- Junot Díaz - The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
- Esi Edugyan - Half-Blood Blues
- Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man
- David Eltis - Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
- Louise Erdrich - The Plague of Doves
- Michel Fabre - The Unfinished Quest of Richard Wright
- Lillian Faderman - The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
- Florestan Fernandes - The Negro in Brazilian Society
- Geoffrey G. Field - Evangelist of Race
- S. Andhil Fineberg - Punishment Without Crime
- Angela Fisher - African Ark: People and Ancient Cultures of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa
- Betty Fladeland - Men & Brothers: Anglo-American Antislavery Cooperation
- Eric Foner - Lifetime Achievement
- Jeffrey Jay Foxx - Living Maya
- Jose Alcina Franch - Pre-Columbian Art
- John Hope Franklin - Lifetime Achievement
- E. Franklin Frazier - The Negro Family in the United States
- George M. Fredrickson - The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817–1914
- Gilberto Freyre - The Masters and the Slaves: A Study in the Development of Brazilian Civilization
- J.C. Furnas - Anatomy of Paradise: Hawaii and the Islands of the South Seas
- Ernest J. Gaines - Lifetime Achievement
- Henry Louis Gates Jr. - The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers (30 volumes)
- Eugene D. Genovese - Roll, Jordan, Roll
- Reginald Gibbons - Sweetbitter
- Henry Gibbs - Twilight in South Africa
- Marija Gimbutas - The Civilization of the Goddess
- Audrie Girdner - The Great Betrayal: The Evacuation of the Japanese-Americans During World War II
- Nathan Glazer - Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City
- Eugene Gloria - My Favorite Warlord
- Nadine Gordimer - A Sport of Nature
- Annette Gordon-Reed - The Hemingses of Monticello
- Milton M. Gordon - Assimilation in American Life: The Role of Race, Religion and National Origins
- Harold F. Gosnell - Negro Politicians: The Rise of Negro Politics in Chicago
- Gwethalyn Graham - Earth and High Heaven
- Shirley Graham - Your Most Humble Servant
- Melissa Fay Greene - Praying for Sheetrock
- John Howard Griffin - Black Like Me
- A.C. Haddon - We Europeans: A Survey of “Racial” Problems
- Alex Haley - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- John S. Haller Jr. - Outcasts from Evolution: Scientific Attitudes of Racial Inferiority, 1859–1900
- Mohsin Hamid - The Reluctant Fundamentalist
- Wilson Harris - Lifetime Achievement
- Peter Hayes, ed. - Lessons and Legacies: The Meaning of the Holocaust in a Changing World
- Worth Tuttle Hedden - The Other Room
- John Hersey - The Wall
- Jamake Highwater - Song From the Earth
- Raul Hilberg - The Destruction of the European Jews
- John Haynes Holmes - I Speak for Myself
- Hugh Honour - The Image of the Black in Western Art From the American Revolution to World War I, Vol. 4, Part 1, Slaves and Liberators, and Vol. 4, Part 2, Black Models and White Myths
- Trevor Huddleston - Naught for Your Comfort
- Langston Hughes - Simple Takes a Wife
- Laird Hunt - Kind One
- Zora Neale Hurston - Dust Tracks on a Road
- Julian Huxley - We Europeans: A Survey of “Racial” Problems
- Leopold Infeld - Quest: The Evolution of a Scientist
- Harold R. Isaacs - The New World of Negro Americans
- Walter A. Jackson - Gunnar Myrdal and America’s Conscience: Social Engineering and Racial Liberalism, 1938–1987
- Marlon James - A Brief History of Seven Killings
- Tyehimba Jess - Olio
- Charles S. Johnson - The Negro College Graduate
- Edward P. Jones - The Known World
- Quincy Jones - Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones
- A. Van Jordan - M•A•C•N•O•L•I•A
- Vernon E. Jordan Jr. - Vernon Can Read
- Robert W. July - A History of the African People
- Erich Kahler - The Jews Among the Nations
- Ilya Kaminsky - Deaf Republic
- William Melvin Kelley - Lifetime Achievement
- Dolores Kendrick - The Women of Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave Women
- Adrienne Kennedy - Lifetime Achievement
- Pauline R. Kibbe - Latin Americans in Texas
- Thomas Kiernan - The Arabs
- Jamaica Kincaid - The Autobiography of My Mother
- Charles King - Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
- Martin Luther King Jr. - Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
- Maxine Hong Kingston - The Woman Warrior
- Richard Kluger - Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America’s Struggle for Equality
- Jonathan Kozol - Amazing Grace
- Nicole Krauss - Great House
- George Lamming - Lifetime Achievement
- Adrian Nicole LeBlanc - Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
- Chang-rae Lee - A Gesture Life
- Richard Borshay Lee - The Kung San: Men, Women and Work in a Foraging Society
- Nam Le - The Boat
- Jill Lepore - New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan
- Stuart Levine - The American Indian Today
- David Levering Lewis - W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919–1963
- David Levering Lewis - W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868–1919
- John Lewis - Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
- Oscar Lewis - La Vida
- James G. Leyburn - The Haitian People
- George Lipsitz - A Life in the Struggle: Ivory Perry and the Culture of Opposition
- Anne Loftis - The Great Betrayal: The Evacuation of the Japanese-Americans During World War II
- Louis E. Lomax - The Reluctant African
- David Loye - The Healing of a Nation
- Nancy O. Lurie - The American Indian Today
- Carleton Mabee - Black Freedom: The Nonviolent Abolitionists from 1830 through the Civil War
- Karan Mahajan - The Association of Small Bombs
- Anthony Marra - A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
- Paule Marshall - Lifetime Achievement
- Adrian Matejka - The Big Smoke
- James McBride - The Color of Water
- Shane McCrae - In the Language of My Captor
- James M. McPherson - The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction
- Oden Meeker - Report on Africa
- Elaine Mensh - The IQ Mythology: Class, Race, Gender and Inequality
- Harry Mensh - The IQ Mythology: Class, Race, Gender and Inequality
- Naboth Mokgatle - The Autobiography of an Unknown South African
- N. Scott Momaday - Lifetime Achievement
- Walter F. Morris Jr. - Living Maya
- Mary Morris - The Jazz Palace
- Toni Morrison - Beloved
- Walter Mosley - Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned
- Farley Mowat - People of the Deer
- Daniel P. Moynihan - Beyond the Melting Pot: The Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City
- Albert L. Murray - Lifetime Achievement
- Gunnar Myrdal - An American Dilemma
- Humbert S. Nelli - From Immigrants to Ethnics: The Italian Americans
- Scott Reynolds Nelson - Steel Drivin’ Man: The Untold Story of an American Legend
- James North - Freedom Rising: Life Under Apartheid Through the Eyes of an American on a Four-Year Clandestine Journey Through Southern Africa
- Bernhard E. Olson - Faith and Prejudice
- Tommy Orange - There There
- Roi Ottley - New World A-Coming
- Gordon Parks - Lifetime Achievement
- Raphael Patai - The Myth of the Jewish Race
- Alan Paton - Cry, the Beloved Country
- Orlando Patterson - Lifetime Achievement
- Rowan Ricardo Phillips - Heaven
- Leon Poliakov - The Aryan Myth
- Peter John Powell - People of the Sacred Mountain
- Samantha Power - A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
- Kevin Powers - The Yellow Birds
- Lee Rainwater - Behind Ghetto Walls
- Arnold Rampersad - Lifetime Achievement
- Arnold Rampersad - The Life of Langston Hughes
- David Richardson - Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
- Donald L. Robinson - Slavery in the Structure of American Politics, 1765–1820
- Richard Rodriguez - Hunger of Memory
- Alex Rosen - A Manual of Intergroup Relations
- Abram L. Sachar - A History of the Jews
- Albie Sachs - Justice in South Africa
- Edward W. Said - Out of Place
- Tepilit Ole Saitoti - Maasai
- Jessie B. Sams - White Mother
- Maurice Samuel - The World of Sholom Aleichem
- Sonia Sanchez - Lifetime Achievement
- Lyle Saunders - Cultural Differences and Medical Care
- Amram Scheinfeld - Your Heredity and Environment
- Brian Seibert - What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing
- Namwali Serpell - The Old Drift
- Kamila Shamsie - Burnt Shadows
- Ari Shavit - My Promised Land
- Gail Sheehy - Spirit of Survival
- George W. Shepherd Jr. - They Wait in Darkness
- Margot Lee Shetterly - Hidden Figures
- James W. Silver - Mississippi: The Closed Society
- George Eaton Simpson - Racial and Cultural Minorities
- David Livingstone Smith - Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave and Exterminate Others
- Tracy K. Smith - Wade in the Water
- Zadie Smith - On Beauty
- Louis Snyder - The Dreyfus Case
- Andrew Solomon - Far From the Tree
- South African Institute of Race Relations - Handbook on Race Relations
- Wole Soyinka - Lifetime Achievement
- Wole Soyinka - Ake: The Years of Childhood
- Brent Staples - Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White
- Mary Helen Stefaniak - The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia
- Wallace Stegner with the Editors of Look - One Nation
- Stan Steiner - La Raza: The Mexican Americans
- Peter Sutton - Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia
- Han Suyin - A Many-Splendored Thing
- Ronald Takaki - A Different Mirror
- Abigail M. Thernstrom - Whose Votes Count? Affirmative Action and Minority Voting Rights
- Phillip V. Tobias, ed. - The Bushmen: San Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa
- F.X. Toole - Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner
- William H. Tucker - The Science and Politics of Racial Research
- Laurens van der Post - Venture to the Interior
- Reetika Vazirani - World Hotel
- Derek Walcott - Lifetime Achievement
- Anthony F.C. Wallace - The Death and Rebirth of the Seneca
- Marilyn Nelson Waniek - The Homeplace
- Geoffrey C. Ward - Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
- Jesmyn Ward - Sing, Unburied, Sing
- Michi Weglyn - Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America’s Concentration Camps
- Dorothy West - Lifetime Achievement
- Colson Whitehead - John Henry Days
- John Edgar Wideman - Lifetime Achievement
- Isabel Wilkerson - The Warmth of Other Suns
- August Wilson - Lifetime Achievement
- William Julius Wilson - Lifetime Achievement
- Oprah Winfrey - Lifetime Achievement
- Jennifer P. Wing - The Myth of the Jewish Race
- Forrest G. Wood - The Arrogance of Faith: Christianity and Race in America From the Colonial Era to the Twentieth Century
- Barton Wright - Kachinas: A Hopi Artist’s Documentary
- Jay Wright - Lifetime Achievement
- David S. Wyman - The Abandonment of the Jews
- Malcolm X - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- J. Milton Yinger - Racial and Cultural Minorities
- Kevin Young - Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
