Books

Johnson’s Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World is the:

• winner of the 2021 Frank L. and Harriet C. Owsley Award for Best Book in Southern History from the Southern Historical Association
• winner of the 2021 Rosalyn Terborg-Penn Prize for Outstanding Original Scholarship on Gender and Sexuality in the African Diaspora from the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora
• winner of the 2021 Wesley-Logan Best Book in African Diaspora History Prize from the Association of American Historians
• winner of the 2021 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize of the American Studies Association
• winner of the 2020 Kemper and Leila Williams Prize for Louisiana History
• winner of the 2020 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize for Best First Book dealing substantially with the topic of women, gender and/or sexuality
• winner of the 2020 Rebel Women Lit Caribbean Readers' Award
• finalist for the 2021 Frederick Douglass Book Prize from the Gilder-Lehrman Institute for the Study of American History
• honorable mention for the 2021 Barbara Christian Literary Prize from the Caribbean Studies Association
• honorable mention for the 2021 Mary Alice and Philip Boucher Book Prize from the French Colonial History Society/Société d'histoire coloniale française
• honorable mention for the 2021 Frederick Jackson Turner Prize from the Organization of American Historians
• honorable mention for the 2021 Pauli Murray Book Prize from the African American Intellectual History Society
• named a "Best Black History Book" of 2020 by Black Perspectives, the publication of the African American Intellectual History Society