IU Press offers 'Blacks in the Diaspora' series

The Indiana University Press' "Blacks in the Diaspora" series encourages and promotes the examination of black experiences in North America and the western hemisphere. Diaspora, however, is defined to include all places and countries where black people reside.

General editors are IU's John McCluskey, Darlene Clark Hine of Michigan State and David Barry Gaspar of Duke.

Prize-winning books in the series:

• "Black Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia -- The Anna Julia Cooper Award for Distinguished Scholarship, the Dartmouth Medal.

• "Black Women in White: Racial Conflict and Cooperation in the Nursing Profession, 1890-1950" -- Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize, Lavinia L. Dock Award.

• "Class, Race, and the Civil Rights Movement: The Changing Political Economy of Southern Racism" -- C. Wright Mills Award.

• "Culture and African American Politics" -- Award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists.

• "Life for Us is What We Make It: Building Black Community in Detroit, 1915-1945" -- Wesley-Logan Prize in African Diaspora History.

• "The NAACP Comes of Age: The Defeat of Judge John J. Parker" -- Gustavus Myers Center Award -- Human Rights.

• "Simple Decency and Common Sense: The Southern Conference Movement, 1938-1963" -- Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Book Prize.

• "Unequal Justice: A Question of Color" -- The Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Bruce Smith, Sr. Award.

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