Professor’s book wins biennial prize

A book by Brenda Gayle Plummer, professor of history and Afro-American studies at the UW–Madison, has won the Myrna F. Bernath Prize from the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations.

The association awards this prize every two years for the best book written by a woman on American foreign relations, transnational history, international history, peace studies, cultural interchange, or defense or strategic studies. Plummer’s award-winner is Rising Wind: Black Americans and U.S. Foreign Affairs, 1935-1960 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996). It analyzes how collective African-American definitions of ethnic identity and race, and experiences with racism in this country affected their views on foreign affairs.