Professor Daniel Nemser's book Infrastructures of Race: Concentration and Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico has won the award for best Humanities Book from the Latin American Studies Association, Mexico Section. In this book, Nemser argues that concentration projects, often tied to urbanization, laid an enduring, material groundwork, or infrastructure, for the emergence and consolidation of new forms of racial identity and theories of race.

The full list of LASA section award winners can be found on the LASA website.