Book from Grace Sanders Johnson Finalist for 2024 Pauli Murray Book Prize

White Gloves, Black Nation: Women, Citizenship, and Political Wayfaring in Haiti, by Associate Professor of Africana Studies Grace Sanders Johnson, was named a finalist for the 2024 Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History. The distinction, named after lawyer, author, and activist Pauli Murray and awarded by the African American Intellectual History Society, honors the “best book concerning Black intellectual history” from the past year.
 
Sanders Johnson is a historian and visual artist. Her areas of study include modern Caribbean history, transnational feminisms, oral history, and environmental humanities. White Gloves, Black Nation, which won the 2023 Haitian Studies Association Book Prize, considers Haitian women’s political life during and after the United States occupation of Haiti from 1915 to 1934. It also considers how an emerging educated and professional class of women who “understood themselves as descendants of the Haitian Revolution established alternative claims to citizenship that included, but were not limited to, suffrage and radicalism.”
 
White Gloves, Black Nation is Sanders Johnson’s first book.