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Finalists for the William P. Clements Prize for the Best Non-Fiction Book on
Southwestern America in 2009
 

NEIL FOLEY
Quest for Equality: The Failed Promise of Black-Brown Solidarity.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010.
Other Awards and Honors:
A Huffington Post Best Social and Political Awareness Book of the Year for 2010
2010 Texas Institute of Letters Award for Most Significant Scholarly Book

 


 

MONICA PERALES
Smeltertown: Making and Remembering a Southwest Border Community,
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Other Awards and Honors
2011 Kenneth Jackson Award, Urban History Association


 

The $2,500 Clements Book Prize honors fine writing and original research on the American Southwest. The competition is open to any nonfiction book, including biography, on any aspect of Southwestern life, past or present. The William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies is part of SMU's Dedman College and affiliated with the Department of History. It was created to promote research, publishing, teaching and public programming in a variety of fields related to the American Southwest. For more information about the Center or about the upcoming book prize event, please call (214) 768-3684 or see http://smu.edu/swcenter/BookPrize.htm.