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An Ģ����Ƶ University Press book has been awarded a 2021 Ģ����Ƶana Book Award.

, edited by Carole Genshaft, won the “About Ģ����Ƶ or an Ģ����Ƶan” category for the 2021 Ģ����Ƶana Book Award, presented by the Ģ����Ƶana Library. 

The work accompanies the exhibition of the same name through October 3, 2021. The book is distributed by the Ģ����Ƶ University Press and details Aminah Robinson’s work, which revolved around her family and community, African American history, travel and stories her elders told her.

“Ģ����Ƶ University Press is thrilled by the recognition for this important book on Aminah Robinson, and we're proud of our role in bringing it to Ģ����Ƶans as well as to a wider audience,” Beth Pratt, Ģ����Ƶ University Press interim director, said. “I hope that Raggin' On and the Ģ����Ƶana award serve to increase Robinson's legacy and inspire artists and readers alike.”

This exhibition and book’s title reflects the hope that the perspectives of visitors of the exhibit and readers of the book will ensure Robinson’s work never ends.

Genshaft is curator-at-large at the Columbus Museum of Art and enjoyed a close relationship with Robinson beginning in the late 1980s. Since Robinson’s death in 2015, she has supervised the organization and documentation of the artist’s estate, which was left to the Museum.

The Ģ����Ƶana Book Awards were first given in 1942 and are the second oldest, and among most prestigious, state literary prizes in the nation.  

Genshaft is also the author of the Ģ����Ƶ University Press–distributed , which was a finalist for the 2018 Ģ����Ƶana Book Award in juvenile literature.

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