Announcing the 

 2025 C. Wright Mills Award Finalists

(in alphabetical order by author's last name)

Cross, Christina J.Inherited Inequality: Why Opportunity Gaps Persist between Black and White Youth Raised in Two-Parent Families, Harvard University Press

Friedman, BrittanyCarceral ApartheidHow Lies and White Supremacists Run Our Prisons, The University of North Carolina Press

 

Garbes, LauraListeners Like Who?: Exclusion and Resistance in the Public Radio Industry, Princeton University Press

Jackson, Michelle, The Division of Rationalized Labor, Harvard University Press

Kurwa, Rahim, Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing, University of California Press

Mojola, Sanyu A.Death by Design: Producing Racial Health Inequality in the Shadow of the Capitol, University of California Press

The C. Wright Mills Award will be presented on Saturday, August 8,
at the Awards Ceremony as a part of the SSSP Annual Meeting
. 

C. Wrights Mills Award Committee

Michael L. Walker, Chair, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
David BrunsmaChair-Elect, Virginia Tech
Asad L. Asad, Stanford University
Shantel Gabrieal Buggs, Florida State University
Patrice D. Collins, Northeastern University
Marta M. Maldonado, Oregon State University
Diana Papademas, Old Westbury, SUNY
Mahala Dyer Stewart, Hamilton College
Derron Wallace, Brown University
Siyue Lena Wang, University of California, Los Angeles