BRIDGE Awarded the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Prize!

The Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights and Bigotry awarded BRIDGE authors Eunice Hyunhye Cho, Francisco Arguelles Paz y Puente, Miriam Ching Yoon Louie and Sasha Khoka a Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award.

The Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights announced its annual list (20th list) of outstanding books and authors. Ten books and their authors are welcomed into the prestigious Myers Outstanding Book Awards Winners' Circle this year. The awards are made annually on December 10, International Human Rights Day.

The Center’s Director, Dr. Loretta J. Williams, noted that the Myers Center encourages greater use of what is known in academia, movement organizations, and the like about institutionalizing anti-oppression practices into all aspects of community and organizational life. "We chose authors and books that challenge ways of thinking and acting," said Williams, “that allow the many faces and facets of bigotry to replicate over and over again.”

Some speak to erased history, and to the exponential repercussions of those erasures. Others speak to policy issues about racial identity. One here is a children’s book that evokes in adults thoughts about what we pass on to next generations. Some are written by professors and journalists and some are the result of “engaged collaborations” of organizers and community practitioners around current-day realities.

The Myers National Panel of Reviewers faced a challenging task in winnowing down from 300+ nominations of an broad range of exciting entries. Both the winning books and authors, and those placed on the Honorable Mention List, give insight for the “present moment.”

For more information about the Gustavus Myers Center, visit their website at: www.myerscenter.org.