Congratulations to Our 2023 Betty and Alfred McClung Lee Book Award Co-Winners!
White Burgers, Black Cash: Fast Food from Black Exclusion to Black Exploitation
By Naa Oyo A. Kwate White Burgers, Black Cash traces the evolution in fast food from the early 1900s to the present, from its long history of racist exclusion to its current damaging embrace of urban Black communities. Deeply researched, compellingly told, and brimming with surprising details, this book reveals the inequalities embedded in America’s popular national food tradition. Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World
By Dorothy Roberts Many believe the child welfare system protects children from abuse. But as Torn Apart uncovers, this system is designed to punish Black families. Drawing on decades of research, legal scholar and sociologist Dorothy Roberts reveals that the child welfare system is better understood as a “family policing system” that collaborates with law enforcement and prisons to oppress Black communities. Child protection investigations ensnare a majority of Black children, putting their families under intense state surveillance and regulation. Black children are disproportionately likely to be torn from their families and placed in foster care, driving many to juvenile detention and imprisonment. The only way to stop the destruction caused by family policing, Torn Apart argues, is to abolish the child welfare system and liberate Black communities. |
BETTY AND ALFRED MCCLUNG LEE BOOK award past recipients
2022 Eve Darian-Smith (2022) Global Burning: Rising Antidemocracy and the Climate Crisis, Stanford University Press.
Honorable Mention: Pallavi Banerjee (2022) The Opportunity Gap: High-Skilled Workers, Indian Families, and the Failures of the Dependent Visa Program. NYU Press.
Victoria Reyes (2022) Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope. Stanford Briefs.
2021 Michael Méndez, Climate Change from the Streets: How Conflict and Collaboration Strengthen the Environmental Justice Movement, Yale University Press
2020 Celeste Watkins-Hayes, Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality, University of California Press.
Honorable Mention: Nicole Nguyen, Suspect Communities: Anti-Muslim Racism and the Domestic War on Terror, University of Minnesota Press.
2019 Robert Durán. The Gang Paradox: Inequalities and Miracles on the U.S.-Mexico Border. Columbia University Press.
2018 Ana Raquel Minian, Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration. Harvard University Press.
2017 Robert Vargas. Wounded City: Violent Turf Wars in a Chicago Barrio. New York: Oxford University Press.
2016 Alice Fothergill and Lori Peek, Children of Katrina, University of Texas Press
Aldon Morris, The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. DuBois and the Birth of Modern Sociology, University of California Press
2015 Mary Patrice Erdmans and Timothy Black, On Becoming a Teen Mom: Life Before Pregnancy, University of California Press.
Honorable Mention: Susan Starr Sered and Maureen Norton-Hawk, Can’t Catch a Break: Gender, Jail, Drugs, and the Limits of Personal Responsibility, University of California Press.
2014 Shannon Elizabeth Bell, Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed: Appalachian Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice, University of Illinois Press
Seth Holmes, Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, University of California Press
2013 David Stuckler and Sanjay Basu, Why Austerity Kills: Recessions, Budget Battles and the Politics of Life and Death, Basic Books
2012 Alondra Nelson, Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination, University of Minnesota Press
2011 Joanna Dreby, Divided by Borders: Mexican Migrants and Their Children, University of California Press
2010 Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, New Press
Timothy Black, When A Heart Turns Rock Solid: The Lives of Three Puerto Rican Brothers on and off the Streets, Pantheon
2009 Javier Auyero and Debora Alejandra Swistun, Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown, Oxford University Press
2008 Devah Pager, Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work, University of Chicago
Reuben A. Buford May, Living Through the Hoop: High School Basketball, Race, and the American Dream, New York University Press
2007 Laura Pulido, Black Brown, Yellow and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles, University of California Press
Melissa Checker, Polluted Promises: Environmental Racism and the Search for Social Justice in a Southern Town, NYU Press
2005 Corey Dolgon, The End of the Hamptons: Scenes from the Class Struggle in America’s Paradise, New York University Press
2003 Kevin Delaney & Rick Eckstein, Public Dollars Private Stadiums: The Battle Over Building Sports Stadiums, Rutgers University Press
2001 Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto, Harvard University Press
1999 Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding Politics: How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life, Cambridge University Press
1997 Jay MacLeod, Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood, expanded edition, Westview Press
1995 Andrew Szasz, EcoPopulism: Toxic Waste and the Movement for Environmental Justice, University of Minnesota Press.
Rob Rosenthal, Homeless in Paradise: A Map of the Terrain, Temple University Press
1993 Timothy Diamond, Making Gray Gold: Narratives of Nursing Home Care, University of Chicago Press
1991 Beth and Steve Cagan, This Promised Land: El Salvador, Rutgers University Press
Roslyn W. Bologh, Love or Greatness, Max Weber and Masculine Thinking - A Feminist Inquiry, Unwin Hymon
1989 Ray Cuzzort, Using Social Thought: The Nuclear Issue and Other Concerns, Mayfield Publishing Company
1987 David Bouchier, Radical Citizenship: The New American Activism, Schocken Books
Honorable Mention: Pallavi Banerjee (2022) The Opportunity Gap: High-Skilled Workers, Indian Families, and the Failures of the Dependent Visa Program. NYU Press.
Victoria Reyes (2022) Academic Outsider: Stories of Exclusion and Hope. Stanford Briefs.
2021 Michael Méndez, Climate Change from the Streets: How Conflict and Collaboration Strengthen the Environmental Justice Movement, Yale University Press
2020 Celeste Watkins-Hayes, Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality, University of California Press.
Honorable Mention: Nicole Nguyen, Suspect Communities: Anti-Muslim Racism and the Domestic War on Terror, University of Minnesota Press.
2019 Robert Durán. The Gang Paradox: Inequalities and Miracles on the U.S.-Mexico Border. Columbia University Press.
2018 Ana Raquel Minian, Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration. Harvard University Press.
2017 Robert Vargas. Wounded City: Violent Turf Wars in a Chicago Barrio. New York: Oxford University Press.
2016 Alice Fothergill and Lori Peek, Children of Katrina, University of Texas Press
Aldon Morris, The Scholar Denied: W.E.B. DuBois and the Birth of Modern Sociology, University of California Press
2015 Mary Patrice Erdmans and Timothy Black, On Becoming a Teen Mom: Life Before Pregnancy, University of California Press.
Honorable Mention: Susan Starr Sered and Maureen Norton-Hawk, Can’t Catch a Break: Gender, Jail, Drugs, and the Limits of Personal Responsibility, University of California Press.
2014 Shannon Elizabeth Bell, Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed: Appalachian Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice, University of Illinois Press
Seth Holmes, Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, University of California Press
2013 David Stuckler and Sanjay Basu, Why Austerity Kills: Recessions, Budget Battles and the Politics of Life and Death, Basic Books
2012 Alondra Nelson, Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination, University of Minnesota Press
2011 Joanna Dreby, Divided by Borders: Mexican Migrants and Their Children, University of California Press
2010 Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, New Press
Timothy Black, When A Heart Turns Rock Solid: The Lives of Three Puerto Rican Brothers on and off the Streets, Pantheon
2009 Javier Auyero and Debora Alejandra Swistun, Flammable: Environmental Suffering in an Argentine Shantytown, Oxford University Press
2008 Devah Pager, Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work, University of Chicago
Reuben A. Buford May, Living Through the Hoop: High School Basketball, Race, and the American Dream, New York University Press
2007 Laura Pulido, Black Brown, Yellow and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles, University of California Press
Melissa Checker, Polluted Promises: Environmental Racism and the Search for Social Justice in a Southern Town, NYU Press
2005 Corey Dolgon, The End of the Hamptons: Scenes from the Class Struggle in America’s Paradise, New York University Press
2003 Kevin Delaney & Rick Eckstein, Public Dollars Private Stadiums: The Battle Over Building Sports Stadiums, Rutgers University Press
2001 Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto, Harvard University Press
1999 Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding Politics: How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life, Cambridge University Press
1997 Jay MacLeod, Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income Neighborhood, expanded edition, Westview Press
1995 Andrew Szasz, EcoPopulism: Toxic Waste and the Movement for Environmental Justice, University of Minnesota Press.
Rob Rosenthal, Homeless in Paradise: A Map of the Terrain, Temple University Press
1993 Timothy Diamond, Making Gray Gold: Narratives of Nursing Home Care, University of Chicago Press
1991 Beth and Steve Cagan, This Promised Land: El Salvador, Rutgers University Press
Roslyn W. Bologh, Love or Greatness, Max Weber and Masculine Thinking - A Feminist Inquiry, Unwin Hymon
1989 Ray Cuzzort, Using Social Thought: The Nuclear Issue and Other Concerns, Mayfield Publishing Company
1987 David Bouchier, Radical Citizenship: The New American Activism, Schocken Books