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2020 Betty and Alfred McClung Lee Book Award 

The 2020 Betty and Alfred McClung Lee Book Award is open for submissions.  
 
The Association for Humanist Sociology is pleased to announce their 2020 Betty and Alfred McClung Lee Book Award. Authors, publishers, and AHS members may nominate books for consideration. The winner will be recognized at our annual meeting November 4-7 in Jackson, Mississippi. Nominations should be for Sociology or interdisciplinary social science books that approach their subjects from a humanist perspective.
 
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.
 
Eligible books should have been published in the calendar year 2019 or the first half of 2020. If a book was submitted for last year's consideration, it cannot be nominated again. Edited volumes and textbooks are not eligible for this award.
 
To nominate a book, authors/publishers/nominators should e-mail a letter of nomination with the subject line “AHS 2020 Book Award Nomination” to Emily Brissette at erbrissette@gmail.com. Authors/publishers should send one copy of the book to each of the award committee members listed below. The deadline for nominations is May 15, 2020. Additional information about AHS is available at www.humanist-sociology.org
 
AHS 2020 Book Award Committee:
 
 
Emily Brissette
Maxwell Library 311
10 Shaw Rd
Bridgewater State University
Bridgewater MA 02325
 
 
Melissa Gouge
2230 Hwy 2
Baker, FL 32531
 
Dr. Sandra E. Weissinger
Sociology Program, SIUE
Campus Box 1455
1 Hairpin Drive
Edwardsville, IL  62026
 
Stuart Parker
1223 E. 39th Street
Brooklyn, NY. 11210

BETTY AND ALFRED MCCLUNG LEE BOOK award past recipients

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

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