Tag: Awards

The Return of Nature wins ASA’s Paul Sweezy Outstanding Book Award

The Return of Nature wins ASA’s Paul Sweezy Outstanding Book Award

MR editor John Bellamy Foster’s The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2020) was the recipient of the Paul Sweezy Outstanding Book Award of the Section on Marxist Sociology of the American Sociological Association for 2022…

Watch: Gerald Horne’s American Book Award acceptance speech

Watch: Gerald Horne’s American Book Award acceptance speech

Gerald Horne is this year’s winner of the ABA, awarded by the Before Columbus Foundation, for his book “The Dawning of the Apocalypse,” a riveting revision of the “creation myth” of settler colonialism and how the United States was formed.

Gerald Horne: From a Jim Crow hospital to the American Book Award

Gerald Horne: From a Jim Crow hospital to the American Book Award

Born in a Jim Crow hospital. Attended racially segregated “apartheid schools.” Grew up in the Mill Creek Valley neighborhood of St. Louis, an area similar to Tulsa’s Black Wall Street and home to several prominent Black businesses that were erased forever by racially motivated construction projects…