Ralph J. Bunche Award Recipients
| Year | Author | Title | Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Michael G. Hanchard | The Spectre of Race: How Discrimination Haunts Western Democracy | Princeton University Press |
| 2018 | Juliet Hooker | Theorizing Race in the Americas: Douglass, Sarmiento, Du Bois, and Vasconcelos | Brown University |
| 2018 | Chris Zepeda-Millán | Latino Mass Mobilization: Immigration, Racialization, and Activism | University of California |
| 2017 | Vaughn Raspberry | Race and the Totalitarian Century: Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination | Harvard University Press |
| 2016 | Marisa Abrajano and Zoltan Hajnal | White Backlash: Immigration, Race, and American Politics | Oxford University Press |
| 2015 | Megan Ming Francis | Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State | Cambridge University Press |
| 2014 | Tracie Burch | Trading Democracy for Justice: Criminal Convictions and the Decline of Neighborhood Political Participation | University of Chicago Press |
| 2014 | Natalie Masuoka and Jane Junn | The Politics of Belonging: Race, Public Opinion, and Immigration | University of Chicago Press |
| 2013 | Otto Santa Ana | Juan in a Hundred: Representations of Latinos on the Network News | University of Texas Press |
| 2013 | Lisa Garcia Bedolla and Melissa Michelson | Mobilizing Inclusion: Transforming the Electorate through Get-Out-the Vote Campaigns | Yale University Press |
| 2012 | Charlton D. Mcllwain and Stephen M. Caliendo | Race Appeal: How Candidates Invoke Race in U.S. Political Campaigns | Temple University Press |
| 2011 | Cristina Beltrán | The Trouble with Unity: Latino Politics and the Creation of Identity | Oxford University Press |
| 2010 | Christopher S. Parker | Fighting for Democracy: Black Veterans and the Struggle Against White Supremacy in the Postwar South | Princeton University Press |
| 2009 | Richard Iton | In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era | Oxford University Press |
| 2009 | Julie Novkov | Racial Union: Law, Intimacy, and the White State in Alabama | University of Michigan Press |
| 2008 | Sarah Song | Justice, Gender, and the Politics of Multiculturalism | Cambridge University Press |
| 2008 | Victoria Hattam | In The Shadow of Race: Jews, Latinos, and Immigrant Politics in the United States | University of Chicago Press |
| 2007 | Fredrick C. Harris, Valeria Sinclair-Chapman, and Brian D. McKenzie | Countervailing Forces in African-American Civic Activism, 1973-1994 | Cambridge University Press |
| 2007 | Mark Q. Sawyer | Racial Politics in Post-Revolutionary Cuba | Cambridge University Press |
| 2006 | Lisa Garcia Bedolla | Fluid Borders: Latino Power, Identity, and Politics in Los Angeles | University of California Press |
| 2005 | Richard M. Valelly | The Two Reconstructions: The Struggle for Black Enfranchisement | University of Chicago Press |
| 2005 | Seyla Benhabib | The Rights of Others | Cambridge University Press |
| 2004 | Robert O. Self | American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oklahoma | Princeton University Press |
| 2003 | Paul M. Sniderman and Thomas Piazza | Black Pride and Black Prejudice | Princeton University Press |
| 2002 | Michael Dawson | Black Visions: The Roots of Contemporary African-American Political Ideologies | University of Chicago Press |
| 2001 | Claire Jean Kim | Bitter Fruit: The Politics of Black-Korean Conflict in New York City | Yale University Press |
| 2000 | J. Morgan Kousser | Colorblind Injustice: Minority Voting Rights and the Undoing of the Second Reconstruction | University of North Carolina Press |
| 2000 | Steven L. Burg and Paul S. Shoup | The War in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Ethnic Conflict and International Intervention | M.E. Sharpe |
| 1999 | Anthony W. Marx | Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of the United States, South Africa, and Brazil | Cambridge University Press |
| 1999 | Matthew F. Jacobson | Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race | Harvard University Press |
| 1998 | Rogers M. Smith | Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History | Yale University Press |
| 1997 | Amy Gutmann and K. Anthony Appiah | Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race | Princeton University Press |
| 1996 | Will Kymlicka | Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights | Oxford University Press |
| 1995 | William H. Tucker | The Science and Politics of Racial Research | University of Illinois Press |
| 1994 | Raphael J. Sonenshein | Politics in Black and White: Race and Power in Los Angeles | Princeton University Press |
| 1993 | Rodney E. Hero | Latinos and the U.S. Political System: Two-tiered Pluralism | Temple University Press |
| 1992 | Donald L. Horowitz | A Democratic South Africa? Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society | University of California Press |
| 1991 | Frank R. Parker | Black Votes Count | University of North Carolina Press |
| 1990 | Clarence N. Stone | Regime Politics: Governing Atlanta, 1946-1988 | University Press of Kansas |
| 1989 | Ronald Walters | Black Presidential Politics | State University of New York Press |
| 1988 | Earl and Merel Black | Politics and Society in the South | Harvard University Press |
| 1987 | D. Garth Taylor | Public Opinion and Collective Action: The Boston School Desegregation Conflict | University of Chicago Press |
| 1987 | Rasma Karklins | Ethnic Relations in the USSR: The Perspective from Below | Allen & Unwin |
| 1986 | Paul R. Dimond | Beyond Busing: Inside the Challenge to Urban Segregation | University of Michigan Press |
| 1985 | Rufus P. Browning, Dale Rogers Marshall, and David H. Tabb | Protest Is Not Enough: The Struggle of Blacks and Hispanics for Equality in Urban Politics | University of California Press |
| 1984 | Mark Naison | Communists in Harlem During the Depression | University of Illinois Press |
| 1983 | John A. Armstrong | Nations Before Nationalism | University of North Carolina Press |
| 1983 | Orlando Patterson | Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study | Harvard University Press |
| 1982 | No award given |
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| 1981 | Marguerite Ross Barnett | The Politics of Cultural Nationalism in South India | Princeton University Press |
| 1980 | Mario Barrera | Race and Class in the Southwest: A Theory of Racial Inequality | University of Notre Dame Press |
| 1979 | Arend Lijphart | Democracy in Plural Societies: A Comparative Approach | Yale University Press |
| 1979 | M. Crawford Young | The Politics of Cultural Pluralism | University of Wisconsin Press |
| 1978 | Irving Howe | World of Our Fathers | Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich |
