Columbia University professor Wendy S. Walters, was longlisted for the 2026 National Nonfiction Book Award for "Dead White: An Argument Against the Color White," a book that argues that the widespread use of the color white is intertwined with ideas about race, purity, power, and cultural assumptions about whiteness. The book is one of 10 selected for the prestigious reference list.

Columbia University professor Wendy S. Walters, was longlisted for the 2026 National Nonfiction Book Award for "Dead White: An Argument Against the Color White," a book that argues that the widespread use of the color white is intertwined with ideas about race, purity, power, and cultural assumptions about whiteness. The book is one of 10 selected for the prestigious reference list.