2019 Betty and Alfred McClung Lee Book Award
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As our Mission states:
Humanist sociologists strive as professionals, as scholars and as activists to uncover and address social issues, working with others to lessen the pain of social problems. We view people not merely as products of social forces, but also as shapers of social life, capable of creating social orders in which everyone's potential can unfold. Difficult times give humanist sociologists opportunities to apply their special skills and perspectives for the purpose of creating a more humane world. Additional information about AHS is available at https://www.humanist-sociology.org/.
As our Mission states:
Humanist sociologists strive as professionals, as scholars and as activists to uncover and address social issues, working with others to lessen the pain of social problems. We view people not merely as products of social forces, but also as shapers of social life, capable of creating social orders in which everyone's potential can unfold. Difficult times give humanist sociologists opportunities to apply their special skills and perspectives for the purpose of creating a more humane world. Additional information about AHS is available at https://www.humanist-sociology.org/.
BETTY AND ALFRED MCCLUNG LEE BOOK award past recipients
2018 Ana Raquel Minian, Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration
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
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