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Keisha N. Blain, associate professor in the Department of History, has been awarded the annual for her recent publication “.”
The book, which “[draws] on a variety of previously untapped sources, including newspapers, government records, songs and poetry,” tells the stories of Black women nationalists in the 20th century. The book prize is given annually for “a first book that deals substantially with the history of women, gender and/or sexuality.”
According to a statement, the selection committee said, “Featuring an impressive archive and transnational in scope, every single chapter in this book offers serious interventions, contributions, and reinterpretations of familiar historical narratives.”
Blain the 2019 Darlene Clark Hine Award from the Organization of American Historians for the same publication.