The Last Plantation wins the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Book Award

The Last Plantation was awarded the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Book Award from the Association of Black Sociologists.

The Ida B. Wells-Barnett Book Award

Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a fierce anti-lynching crusader and a progenitor of critical sociological theory and methods. Her quantitative and qualitative work enumerating instances and motivations for lynching in late 19th and early 20th century America laid the groundwork for sociological theories of race, class, and gender, as well as mixed methods investigations. The Ida B. Wells-Barnett Book Award is given annually to the best, published book in the previous two years (i.e., published in 2024 or 2025).