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2025

Amalia Mesa-Bains

Tomás Ybarra-Frausto and Foreword by Chon Noriega

Gold Medal, Biography, Independent Publisher Book Awards
Gold Medal, Best Arts Book, International Latino Book Awards

2024

2023

Christina Fernandez: Multiple Exposures

Curated by Joanna Szupinska and Edited by Rebecca Epstein

Bronze Medal, Photography, Independent Publisher Book Awards
Silver Medal, Best Arts Book, International Latino Book Awards
International Latino Book Awards, Bronze Medal, Best Cover Illustration or Photo

2022

The Artist as Eyewitness: Antonio Bernal Papers, 1884–2019

Edited by Charlene Villaseñor Black

Gold Medal, Best Biography - English, International Latino Book Awards
Honorable Mention, Best Arts Book, International Latino Book Awards
Honorable Mention, Best Nonfiction - Multi-Author, International Latino Book Awards

2021

Knowledge for Justice: An Ethnic Studies Reader

David K. Yoo and Pamela Grieman and Charlene Villaseñor Black and Danielle Dupuy and Arnold Ling-Chuang Pan

Bronze Medal, Anthologies, Independent Publisher Book Awards
Outstanding Book Award, Association for Ethnic Studies

La Raza

Edited by Colin Gunckel and Exhibition curated by Luis C. Garza and Amy Scott

Thoma Foundation Exhibition Catalogue Award, The Association for Latin American Art

José Montoya

Ella Maria Diaz and Foreword by Chon A. Noriega

Gold Medal - Best Arts Book, International Latino Book Awards
Gold Medal - Best Biography, English, International Latino Book Awards

2020

The Chicana/o Education Pipeline

Edited by Michaela J. L. Mares-Tamayo and Daniel G. Solórzano

Honorable Mention, Best Academic-Themed Book, International Latino Book Awards

La Raza

Edited by Colin Gunckel and Exhibition curated by Luis C. Garza and Amy Scott

Gold Medal, U.S. History, Independent Publisher Book Awards
1st Place, Best Arts Book, International Latino Book Awards
1st Place, Best Academic-Themed Book, International Latino Book Awards
1st Place, Best Cover Photo, International Latino Book Awards
Honorable Mention, Victor Villaseñor Best Latino Focused Nonfiction Book Award – English, International Latino Book Awards

2019

Altermundos

Edited by Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson and B. V. Olguín

Bronze Medal, Book Series Non Fiction, 2019 Independent Publisher Book Awards

The Chicana/o Education Pipeline

Edited by Michaela J. L. Mares-Tamayo and Daniel G. Solórzano

Bronze Medal, Book Series Non-Fiction, Independent Publisher Book Awards

The Aztlán Mexican Studies Reader, 1974–2016

Edited by Héctor Calderón

Bronze Medal, Book Series Nonfiction, Independent Publisher Book Awards
1st Place, Best Academic-Themed Book; 2nd Place, Best Latino-Focused Nonfiction (English), International Latino Book Awards

2018

Altermundos

Edited by Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson and B. V. Olguín

American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation

Laura Aguilar: Show and Tell

Edited by Rebecca Epstein and Curated by Sybil Venegas

Gold Medal, West-Pacific: Best Regional Non-Fiction, Independent Publisher Book Awards
2nd Place, Best Latina Themed Book, International Latino Book Awards
Honorable Mention, Best LGBTQ+ Themed Book, International Latino Book Awards
Honorable Mention, Best Latino Focused Book Design, International Latino Book Awards

Home—So Different, So Appealing

Edited by Chon A. Noriega, Mari Carmen Ramírez, and Pilar Tompkins Rivas

1st Place, Best Cover Design, International Latino Book Awards
1st Place, Best Cover Photo, International Latino Book Awards
2nd Place, Best Latino Focused Book Design, International Latino Book Awards
2nd Place, Best Interior Design, International Latino Book Awards
Honorable Mention, Best Use of Photos Inside the Book, International Latino Book Awards

Judith F. Baca 

Anna Indych-López and Foreword by Chon A. Noriega

Silver Medal, Multicultural Non-Fiction Adult, Independent Publisher Book Awards
1st Place, Best Latino Focused Book Design, International Latino Book Awards
2nd Place, Best Arts Book, International Latino Book Awards
2nd Place, Best Latina Themed Book, International Latino Book Awards

2017

Altermundos

Edited by Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson and B. V. Olguín

First Place, Best Cover Illustration, International Latino Book Awards

2015

Luis Cruz Azaceta

Alejandro Anreus and Foreword by Chon A. Noriega

1st Place, Best Arts Book (English), International Latino Book Awards

2014

Ricardo Valverde

Ramón García and Foreword by Chon A. Noriega

2nd Place, Best Latino-Focused Nonfiction (English), International Latino Book Awards
2nd Place, Best First Book Nonfiction (English), International Latino Book Awards
Honorable Mention, Best Arts Book, International Latino Book Awards

Pepón Osorio

Jennifer A. González and Foreword by Chon A. Noriega

2nd Place, Best Arts Book (English) , International Latino Book Awards
Honorable Mention, Best Latino-Focused Nonfiction (English), International Latino Book Awards

2013

Floricanto en Aztlán

Poetry by Alurista and Illustrations by Judithe Hernández

1st Place, Best Poetry Book One Author (Spanish); Honorable Mention, Best Arts Book (Spanish or Bilingual); and Honorable Mention, Best Gift Book, International Latino Book Awards

The Arhoolie Foundation’s Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings

Agustín Gurza, with essays by Jonathan Clark and Chris Strachwitz

1st Place, Best History Book (English), International Latino Book Awards
1st Place, Best Reference Book (English), International Latino Book Awards
2nd Place, Best Nonfiction Multi-Author, International Latino Book Awards
Best Research in Recorded Folk, Ethnic, or Country Music - Discography, Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research

Rafael Ferrer

Deborah Cullen

1st Place, Best Arts Book (English), International Latino Book Awards

2012

The Oscar Castillo Papers and Photograph Collection

Edited by Colin Gunckel and With essays by Rudy Acuña, Leonardo Castellanos, Ernesto Chávez, Harry Gamboa Jr., Colin Gunckel, Elize Mazadiego, Roberto Tejada, Jesús Salvador Treviño

Honorable Mention, Best Reference Book, International Latino Book Awards

L.A. Xicano

Edited by Chon A. Noriega, Terezita Romo, and Pilar Tompkins Rivas

Gold Medal, West-Pacific Best Regional Non-fiction, Independent Publisher Book Awards
1st Place, Best Arts Book (English), International Latino Book Awards

Malaquias Montoya

Terezita Romo

2nd Place, Best Arts Book in English, International Latino Book Awards

2011

2010

The Fire of Life

Essay by Robb Hernandez

2nd Place, Best Reference Book (English), International Latino Book Awards

María Brito

Juan A. Martínez

1st Place and Triple Crown Award Winner, Best Arts Book (English), International Latino Book Awards

2009

Yolanda M. López 

Karen Mary Davalos

Honorable Mention, Best Nonfiction Arts Book (English), International Latino Book Awards