Diverse Book Awards (for academic libraries)

book that prioritizes African women's experiences (Women's Caucus of the African Studies Association)

most valuable work of African anthropology (Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland )

outstanding scholarly publication in Africana studies (National Council of Black Studies)

book that engages the archival record to illuminate and analyze African Americans’ social, political, and cultural realities (Association for the Study of African American Life and History)

best book on East African Studies (African Studies Association)

excellence in adult nonfiction by an African American author

(Southern Conference on African American Studies)

book that best furthers both the global community of Africanist scholars and the wider interests of the African continent (Association for Africanist Anthropology)

most outstanding nonfiction book in English on the subject of slavery, resistance, and/or abolition (Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition)

nonfiction book on the slave trade, slavery, and anti-slavery in the Atlantic World (NYPL Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery)

African-American popular culture studies (Popular Culture Association)

most important scholarly work in African studies published in English (African Studies Association)

best work of nonfiction in Black literature in the United States and around the globe (Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation)

honors Ida B. Wells-Barnett, a fierce anti-lynching advocate and progenitor of critical sociological theory and methods (Association of Black Sociologists)

most distinguished book or monograph on the topic of African and African diasporan music (African and African Diasporic Music Section - Society for Ethnomusicology)

most distinguished work of scholarship on continental African history published in English (American Historical Association)

outstanding representations and achievements of people of color in nonfiction (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)

best book in Black intellectual history (African American Intellectual History Society)

scholarship and writing within the field of African American history and culture (Museum of African American History)

distinguished book of general adult fiction or nonfiction that illuminates a critical social issue (Harriet Beecher Stowe Center)

books whose subject grapple with fundamental questions of political power, race, and other intersections of oppression (National Conference of Black Political Scientists)

outstanding book in African diaspora history (American Historical Association and Association for the Study of African American Life & History)

outstanding scholarly study of black American literature or culture (Modern Language Association)

excellence in adult fiction by an African American author

rising African-American fiction writers not yet widely recognized for their work (Baton Rouge Area Foundation)

best work of fiction in Black literature in the United States and around the globe (Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation)

outstanding representations and achievements of people of color in fiction (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)

distinguished book of general adult fiction or nonfiction that illuminates a critical social issue (Harriet Beecher Stowe Center)