Goddard Riverside Releases Shortlist for Social Justice Book Prize

Goddard Riverside has announced the six titles shortlisted for its Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice. The award, now in its third year, honors books that "create change in the name of justice for all."  The winner will be announced at Goddard Riverside’s annual gala on October 22 at Manhattan’s Gotham Hall.

The shortlisted works are:

An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago by Alex Kotlowitz (Nan A. Talese, 2019)

Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair by Danielle Sered (The New Press, 2019) 

No Place on the Corner: The Costs of Aggressive Policing by Jan Haldipur (NYU Press, 2018)

Fight Like a Mother: How a Grassroots Movement Took on the Gun Lobby and Why Women Will Change the World by Shannon Watts (HarperOne, 2019)

Guns Down: How to Defeat the NRA and Build a Safer Future with Fewer Guns by Igor Volsky (The New Press, 2019)

Think Black by Clyde Ford (HarperCollins, 2019)

The list was chosen by a slate of judges including Paul Krugman, New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize winner; Marcia Cantarella, university administrator and author of I CAN Finish College: The Overcome Any Obstacle and Get Your Degree Guide; Nancy Wackstein, former executive director of United Neighborhood Houses of New York; and Michael Zisser, former CEO of University Settlement and The Door. The panel is chaired by Douglas Bauer, executive director of the Clark Foundation.