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Congratulations to our award-winning  ALI authors! 

Winner of the Outstanding Book Award, Association for Theatre in Higher Education, 2012
Winner of the Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize, New England American Studies Association, 2012
Runner-Up for the John Hope Franklin Publication Prize, American Studies Association, 2012
Honorable Mention for the Distinguished Book Award, Society for the Study of American Women Writers, 2012
Winner of the Children’s Literature Association Book Award for books published in 2011
Racial Innocence: Performing Childhood and Race from Slavery to Civil Rights
by Robin Bernstein

Winner of the MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies
An Ethics of Betrayal: The Politics of Otherness in Emergent U.S. Literatures and Culture
by Crystal Parikh

Winner of the Alan Bray Memorial Book Award, MLA, 2011
Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination
by Darieck Scott

Winner of the Gloria E. Anzaldúa Award, American Studies Association
The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary
by Lori Harrison-Kahan

Winner of the Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Book Award, Caribbean Studies Association, 2011
Searching for Mr. Chin: Constructions of Nation and the Chinese in West Indian Literature
anne -marie lee-loy

Winner of the Texas Tech University President’s Book Award, 2011
Acts of Narrative Resistance: Women’s Autobiographical Writings in the Americas
Laura J. Beard

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