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The 2007 Myers Center Outstanding Book Awards Advancing Human Rights have been announced.
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BOSTON, MA (Dec. 5, 2007) - They definitely are passionate about books, and about social justice. For twenty-three years, the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America has identified books speaking of too-often erased histories and too scantily noticed ideas and strategies for a more humane future.
Here are the 2007 winners:
* Kenny Fries, The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin's Theory. (Carroll & Graf).

* Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)/

* The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex, edited by INCITE!
Women of Color Against Violence. (South End Press)

* Sara Littlecrow-Russell, The Secret Powers of Naming, (University of Arizona Press)

* Tina Lopes & Barb Thomas, Dancing on Live Embers: Challenging Racism in Organizations, (Between The Lines)

* Micki McElya, Clinging to Mammy: The Faithful Slave in Twentieth-Century America, (Harvard University Press) * Steven Salaita, Anti-Arab Racism in the US, (Pluto Press)

* Alex Sanchez, Getting It: A Novel (Simon & Schuster)
* Chip Smith, The Cost of Privilege: Taking on the System of White Supremacy and Racism,(Camino Press)

* Harriet A. Washington, Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (Doubleday).

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