Books By Brenda E. Stevenson - Author

Brenda Stevenson, professor of history at UCLA, is senior editor of the three volume Encyclopedia of Black Women in America (2005), a 2005 Choice Outstanding Academic title, and several books in African American history, including Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South (1996), winner of the 1997 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Prize for the Study of Human Rights in North America, and The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender and the Origins of the L.A. Riots (2013) winner of the OAH 2014 James A. Rawley Prize as Best Book on History of Race Relations for 2013.