Winner announced this weekend at AAIHS conference
The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) announced earlier this month the finalists for the fourth annual Pauli Murray Book Prize for the best book in Black intellectual history.
Named after lawyer, author, and women’s rights activist-intellectual Pauli Murray, this prize recognizes the best book concerning Black intellectual history published between January 1, 2020 and December 31, 2020 by an AAHIS member.
The award winner will be announced at the 2021 AAIHS Conference, which will be held virtually from March 19-20, 2021. Here are the five finalists selected by this year’s fellowship committee.
Here are the five finalists:
Brandon R. Byrd, The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti (University of Pennsylvania Press)
Richard Kent Evans, Move: An American Religion (Oxford University Press)
Garrett Felber, Those Who Know Don’t Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State (University of North Carolina Press)
Jessica Marie Johnson, Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World (University of Pennsylvania Press)
Quito J. Swan, Pauulu’s Diaspora: Black Internationalism and Environmental Justice (University Press of Florida)
The winner will receive $1,000, a featured week-long roundtable on the book in Black Perspectives, and a featured interview published in Black Perspectives.
More information on the books and the prize can be found here.
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