The Roberto Reis BRASA Book Award recognizes the two best books in Brazilian Studies published in English that contribute significantly to promoting an understanding of Brazil. This award honors Roberto Reis, one of the founders of BRASA, who was committed to developing Brazilian Studies in the United States.  The two best books will receive US$200 awards each. The two honorable mentions will receive certificates.

The prizes will be awarded at the closing ceremonies of the Tenth International Congress of BRASA on Saturday, 24 July 2010 at the Memorial JK in Brasília.

The 2010 committee has voted to award the Reis Book Prizes to (in alphabetical order)

Fischer, Brodwyn.  A Poverty of Rights:  Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro (Stanford, 2008)

 and

Holston, James.  Insurgent Citizenship:  Disjunctions of Democracy and Modernity in Brazil (Princeton, 2009)

The committee has also voted to award the Reis Book Prize Honorable Mention to (in alphabetical order)

French, Jan Hoffman.  Legalizing Identities:  Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil’s Northeast (North Carolina, 2009)

Lesser, Jeffrey.  A Discontented Diaspora:  Japanese Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy, 1960-80 (Duke, 2007)
 

Prize Committee:
Jeffrey Needell (History) University of Florida
John Karam (Anthropology) DePaul University
Rebecca Atencio (Portuguese) Tulane University