Announcing the 

 2025 C. Wright Mills Award Finalists

(in alphabetical order by author's last name)

Canizales, Stephanie L., Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States, University of California Press
Contreras, Randol, The Marvelous Ones: Drugs, Gang Violence, and Resistance in East Los Angeles, University of California Press
Fullwiley, Duana, Tabula Raza: Mapping Race and Human Diversity in American Genome Science, University of California Press
Gross, Nora, Brothers in Grief: The Hidden Toll of Gun Violence on Black Boys and Their Schools, The University of Chicago Press
Teeger, Chana, Distancing the Past: Racism as History in South African Schools, Columbia University 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 Commitee

Michael L. Walker, Chair, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
David Brunsma, Chair-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