American Book Award

Given by Before Columbus Foundation

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The American Book Award was established in 1978 by the Before Columbus Foundation to "honor excellence in American literature without restriction or bias with regard to race, sex, creed, cultural show more origin, size of press or ad budget, or even genre." There are no categories, ranks, or restrictions, and winners are selected by a panel of writers, editors, and publishers representing the diversity of American literary culture. The Award also periodically honors authors through Lifetime Achievement Awards. show less
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WorkCategoryYear
The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War: Charting the Rise and Fall of U.S. Military Emissions by Neta C. Crawford
Anti-Censorship Award2023
Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza by Mosab Abu Toha
2023
When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
2023
High-Risk Homosexual by Edgar Gomez
2023
The ways : poems of affirmation, remembrance, reflection and wonder by Everett Hoagland
2023
Born of Lakes and Plains: Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West by Anne F. Hyde
2023
The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories by Jamil Jan Kochai
2023
Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins by Aidan Levy
2023
Sinking Bell by Bojan Louis
2023
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelly Lytle Hernandez
2023
Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
2023
Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan by Darryl Pinckney
2023
Mummy Eaters (African Poetry Book) by Sherry Shenoda
2023
Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora
2023
Sound recording technology and American literature from the phonograph to the remix by Jessica Teague
Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award2022
Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump by Spencer Ackerman
2022
The Diné Reader: An Anthology of Navajo Literature by Esther G. Belin
2022
Songs in Ursa Major by Emma Brodie
2022
Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound by Daphne A. Brooks
2022
What Storm, What Thunder by Myriam J. A. Chancy
2022
Monkey Boy by Francisco Goldman
2022
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
2022
Economy Hall : the hidden history of a free Black brotherhood by Fatima Shaik
2022
Quanundrum: [i will be your many angled thing] by Edwin Torres
2022
Book of the Other: small in comparison by Truong Tran
2022
Yellow Rain: Poems by Mai Der Vang
2022
Mutiny (Penguin Poets) by Phillip B. Williams
2022
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner
2022
Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar
2021
These Ghosts Are Family by Maisy Card
2021
Borderland Apocrypha by Anthony Cody
2021
The Young Lords: A Radical History by Johanna Fernández
2021
In the Lateness of the World: Poems by Carolyn Forché
2021
Great Demon Kings: A Memoir of Poetry, Sex, Art, Death, and Enlightenment by John Giorno
2021
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong
2021
The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century by Gerald Horne
2021
{#289-128}: Poems by Randall Horton
2021
White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity by Robert P. Jones
2021
Dunfords Travels Everywheres by William Melvin Kelley
2021
John Okada: The Life and Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy (Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies) by Frank Abe
2019
Useful Phrases for Immigrants: Stories (Bakwin Award) by May-lee Chai
2019
The House of Early Sorrows: A Memoir in Essays by Louise Desalvo
2019
New Poets of Native Nations by Heid E. Erdrich
2019
Teeth never sleep : poems by Ángel García
2019
There There by Tommy Orange
2019
Dancing in Blackness: A Memoir by Halifu Osumare
2019
Unlikeness Is Us: Fourteen from the Exeter Book by Christopher Patton
2019
No Good Alternative: Volume Two of Carbon Ideologies by William T. Vollmann
2019
No Immediate Danger: Volume One of Carbon Ideologies by William T. Vollmann
2019
Ms. Marvel Vol. 9: Teenage Wasteland by G. Willow Wilson
2019
The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir by Thi Bui
2018
The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood by Tommy J. Curry
2018
Heaven Is All Goodbyes: Pocket Poets No. 61 (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) by Tongo Eisen-Martin
2018
Life of the Land: Articulations of a Native Writer by Dana Naone Hall
2018
City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771–1965 (Justice, Power, and Politics) by Kelly Lytle Hernandez
2018
The Changeling by Victor LaValle
2018
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions by Valeria Luiselli
2018
Altermundos: Latin@ Speculative Literature, Film, and Popular Culture (Aztlan Anthology) by Cathryn Josefina Merla-Watson
2018
The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits by Tiya Miles
2018
Nature Poem by Tommy Pico
2018
Patriarchy Blues by Rena Priest
2018
Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation by Sunaura Taylor
2018
Adnan's Story: The Search for Truth and Justice After Serial by Rabia Chaudry
2017
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
2017
Him, Me, Muhammad Ali by Randa Jarrar
2017
The Mexican Flyboy (Chicana and Chicano Visions of the Americas series) by Alfredo Véa Jr.
2017
The Book of Harlan by Bernice L. McFadden
2017
Sounding Thunder: The Stories of Francis Pegahmagabow by Brian D. McInnes
2017
Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America by Patrick Phillips
2017
Race and the totalitarian century : geopolitics in the Black literary imagination by Vaughn Rasberry
2017
Year of the Rat by Marc Anthony Richardson
2017
Green Island: A novel by Shawna Yang Ryan
2017
See you in the streets : art, action, and remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire by Ruth Sergel
2017
Look: Poems by Solmaz Sharif
2017
Seeing the Light: Four Decades in Chinatown by Dean Wong
2017
Manifestation Wolverine: The Collected Poetry of Ray Young Bear by Ray Young Bear
2016
Tributaries (Sun Tracks) by Laura Da'
2016
A Curious Land: Stories from Home (Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction) by Susan Muaddi Darraj
2016
We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future by Deepa Iyer
2016
Loving Day by Mat Johnson
2016
Counternarratives by John Keene
2016
F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature by William J. Maxwell
2016
Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape by Lauret Savoy
2016
The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry by Ned Sublette
2016
Tomorrow's Battlefield: U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa by Nick Turse
2016
Rebel Music: Race, Empire, and the New Muslim Youth Culture by Hisham Aidi
2015
Forbidden City, USA: Chinese American Nightclubs, 1936-1970 by Arthur Dong
2015
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
2015
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
2015
Transformation of the African American intelligentsia, 1880-2012 by Martin Kilson
2015
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein
2015
The Moor's Account by Laila Lalami
2015
from unincorporated territory [saina] by Craig Santos Perez
2015
The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light by Carlos Santana
2015
Southside Buddhist: Essays by Ira Sukrungruang
2015
The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age by Astra Taylor
2015
Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country by Andrew Bacevich
2014
Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom
2014
Vital Signs by Juan Delgado
2014
The Five Acts of Diego Leon: A Novel by Alex Espinoza
2014
Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black America since 1940 by Jonathan Scott Holloway
2014
Hyperboreal (Pitt Poetry Series) by Joan Naviyuk Kane
2014
See Now Then by Jamaica Kincaid
2014
Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora by Emily Raboteau
2014
Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader by Jerome Rothenberg
2014
Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam by Nick Turse
2014
Wash by Margaret Wrinkle
2014
Singing in Magnetic Hoofbeat: Essays, Prose Texts, Interviews and a Lecture 1991-2007 by Will Alexander
2013
San Francisco Chinatown: A Guide to Its History and Architecture by Philip P. Choy
2013
The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin
2013
When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz
2013
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
2013
Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence by Alan Gilbert
2013
A Simple Revolution by Judy Grahn
2013
Crazy Brave: A Memoir by Joy Harjo
2013
The Block Captain's Daughter (Chicana and Chicano Visions of the Americas series) by Demetria Martínez
2013
Corpse Whale (Sun Tracks) by dg nanouk okpik
2013
Subversives: The FBI's War on Student Radicals, and Reagan's Rise to Power by Seth Rosenfeld
2013
Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars' Club by Christopher B. Teuton
2013
Ring of Bone by Lew Welch
2013
Day of Honey: A Memoir of Food, Love, and War by Annia Ciezadlo
2012
What have you done to our ears to make us hear echoes? by Arlene Kim
2012
Whorled by Ed Bok Lee
2012
Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes by Adilifu Nama
2012
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor by Rob Nixon
2012
American Masculine: Stories by Shann Ray
2012
Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness?: What It Means to Be Black Now by Touré
2012
The Submission by Amy Waldman
2012
The Translator's Sister by Mary Winegarden
2012
Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels by Kevin Young
2012
Journey into America: The Challenge of Islam by Akbar Ahmed
2011
African American Writers and Classical Tradition by William W. Cook
2011
Suck on the Marrow by CAMILLE DUNGY
2011
Extra Indians by Eric Gansworth
2011
John Oliver Killens: A Life of Black Literary Activism by Keith Gilyard
2011
Bring Down the Little Birds: On Mothering, Art, Work, and Everything Else (Camino del Sol) by Carmen Giménez Smith
2011
The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the United States by Miriam Jiménez Román
2011
You Have Given Me a Country: A Memoir by Neela Vaswani
2011
Shrouds of White Earth by Gerald Vizenor
2011
I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita
2011
Digging: The Afro-American Soul of American Classical Music by Amiri Baraka
2010
Flood Song by Sherwin Bitsui
2010
A New Language, A New World: Italian Immigrants in the United States, 1890-1945 (Statue of Liberty Ellis Island) by Nancy C. Carnevale
2010
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
2010
World Ball Notebook by Sesshu Foster
2010
Big Machine: A Novel by Victor LaValle
2010
This Is What They Say: Stories by François Mandeville
2010
Short Girls by Bich Minh Nguyen
2010
Black, Brown, & Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora (The Surrealist Revolution) by Franklin Rosemont
2010
Poems for the Millennium, Volume Three by Jerome Rothenberg
2010
Crazy Love: New Poems by Pamela Uschuk
2010
Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era by Houston A. Baker
2009
Ask for a Convertible: Stories by Danit Brown
2009
Please (New Issues Poetry & Prose) by Jericho Brown
2009
The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes: Selected Works of José Antonio Burciaga (Camino del Sol) by Jos Antonio Burciaga
2009
Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds by Claire Hope Cummings
2009
If I Die in Juárez (Camino Del Sol) by Stella Pope Duarte
2009
All of It Singing: New and Selected Poems by Linda Gregg
2009
Breaking Poems by Suheir Hammad
2009
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
2009
A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music by George E. Lewis
2009
Ghosts of El Grullo by Patricia Santana
2009
My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Jack Spicer
2009
How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America by Moustafa Bayoumi
2008
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon
2008
Al' America: Travels Through America's Arab and Islamic Roots by Jonathan Curiel
2008
Anóoshi lingit aaní ká = Russians in Tlingit America : the battles of Sitka, 1802 and 1804 by Nora Marks Dauenhauer
2008
All That Lies Between Us (Essential Poets series) by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
2008
The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998 by Nikki Giovanni
2008
Prairie Style by C. S. Giscombe
2008
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid by Frank B. Wilderson, III
2008
Where I Must Go: A Novel by Angela Jackson
2008
Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America by Tom Lutz
2008
Steer Toward Rock by Fae Myenne Ng
2008
The Ocean in the Closet by Yuko Taniguchi
2008
How the Irish Invented Slang: The Secret Language of the Crossroads by Daniel Cassidy
2007
Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster by Michael Eric Dyson
2007
Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa (Writing in Latinidad) by Rigoberto González
2007
Across a Hundred Mountains by Reyna Grande
2007
Blonde Indian: An Alaska Native Memoir by Ernestine Hayes
2007
The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic America by Patricia Klindienst
2007
Jimbo's Inferno by Gary Panter
2007
Beyond Literary Chinatown by Jeffrey F. L. Partridge
2007
Wisdom of the Body by Judith Roche
2007
The Space Between by Kali Vanbaale
2007
The Testing of Luther Albright by MacKenzie Scott
2006
Shoot the Buffalo by Matt Briggs
2006
The Columbia Guide to Contemporary African American Fiction by Darryl Dickson-Carr
2006
Feeling Italian: The Art of Ethnicity in America (Nation of Newcomers: Immigrant History as American History) by Thomas J. Ferraro
2006
Skin Tax by Tim Z. Hernandez
2006
Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America by Josh Kun
2006
Nate by P. Lewis
2006
A Broken Flute: The Native Experience in Books for Children by Doris Seale
2006
Rise Up Singing: Black Women Writers on Motherhood by Cecelie Berry
2005
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation by Jeff Chang
2005
Redemption by Julie Chibbaro
2005
Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror by Richard A. Clarke
2005
Swimming in the American: A Memoir And Selected Writings by Hiroshi Kashiwagi
2005
Crimes Against Nature: How George W. Bush and His Corporate Pals Are Plundering the Country and Hijacking Our Democracy by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
2005
Country of Origin by Don Lee
2005
The Red Cedar of Afognak: A Driftwood Journey by John P. Pestrikoff
2005
A Long Movie of Shadows by Lamont B. Steptoe
2005
No Lonesome Road: Selected Prose and Poems by Don West
2005
Crescent by Diana Abu-Jaber
2004
Enemy Aliens: Double Standards And Constitutional Freedoms In The War On Terrorism by David Cole
2004
Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America by Charisse Jones
2004
Breaking Away by Kristin Hunter Lattany
2004
Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a, and Asian American Fictions by A. Robert Lee
2004
All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki
2004
Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't: Jazz and the Making of the Sixties by Scott Saul
2004
And All the Saints by Michael Walsh
2004
Fire in Beulah by Rilla Askew
2003
Paradise Alley by Kevin Baker
2003
The Living Blood by Tananarive Due
2003
Perma Red by Debra Magpie Earling
2003
Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg
2003
Homeless at Home by Gloria Frym
2003
Interrogations at Noon by Dana Gioia
2003
Under the Fifth Sun: Latino Literature from California by Rick Heide
2003
Shell Shaker by LeAnne Howe
2003
Lipstick and Other Stories by Alex Kuo
2003
This War Called Love by Alejandro Murguia
2003
Is There No Other Way?: The Search for a Nonviolent Future by Michael N. Nagler
2003
The Full Rudy: The Man, the Myth, the Mania (Nation Books) by Jack Newfield
2003
Italian Stories (American Literature (Dalkey Archive)) by Joseph Papaleo
2003
Reading the Funnies : Looking at Great Cartoonists Throughout the First Half of the 20th Century by Donald Phelps
2003
What Is This Thing Called Jazz?: African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists (Music of the African Diaspora) by Eric Porter
2003
Douglass' Women : A Novel by Jewell Parker Rhodes
2003
Riding the Bus with My Sister: A True Life Journey by Rachel Simon
2003
Raising Ourselves: A Gwich'in Coming of Age Story from the Yukon River by Velma Wallis
2003
Listening to Our Grandmothers' Stories: The Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females, 1852-1949 (North American Indian Prose Award) by Amanda J. Cobb-Greetham
2001
Scapegoat: The Jews, Israel, and Women's Liberation by Andrea Dworkin
2001
When Living Was a Labor Camp (Camino del Sol) by Diana Garcia
2001
Kissing the Bread: New and Selected Poems, 1969-1999 by Sandra M. Gilbert
2001
Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire by Chalmers Johnson
2001
Phoenix Eyes and Other Stories (The Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies) by Russell C. Leong
2001
Bruised Hibiscus by Elizabeth Nunez
2001
Packinghouse Daughter: A Memoir by Cheri Register
2001
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware
2001
From the Belly of My Beauty (Sun Tracks) by Esther G. Belin
2000
Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child by Elva Treviño Hart
2000
It's Not Nostalgia: Poetry & Prose by Michael Lally
2000
All Souls: A Family Story from Southie by Michael Patrick MacDonald
2000
Mothers Who Think: Tales Of Real-life Parenthood by Camille Peri
2000
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse Ray
2000
Italian American : the racializing of an ethnic identity by David A. J. Richards
2000
Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English by John Russell Rickford
2000
Why She Left Us: A Novel by Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
2000
The Trickster Shift: Humour and Irony in Contemporary Native Art by Allan J. Ryan
2000
Front Row at the White House : My Life and Times by Helen Thomas
2000
Exotica by David Toop
2000
Heads by Harry by Lois-Ann Yamanaka
2000
Home to Medicine Mountain by Chiori Santiago
Children's Book Award1999
The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat
1999
Right Here, Right Now by Trey Ellis
1999
The Floating Borderlands: Twenty-Five Years of U.S. Hispanic Literature by Lauro Flores
1999
What Book!?: Buddha Poems from Beat to Hiphop by Gary Gach
1999
Hip Hop America by Nelson George
1999
The Last Paradise by James D. Houston
1999
Ghost Dancing by Anna Linzer
1999
Charming Billy by Alice McDermott
1999
The Freshour Cylinders by Speer Morgan
1999
The Men of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor
1999
Salvation and Other Disasters by Josip Novakovich
1999
First Fish, First People: Salmon Tales of the North Pacific Rim by Judith Roche
1999
Sometimes the Soul: Two Novellas of Sicily by Gioia Timpanelli
1999
Survivor's Medicine: Short Stories (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series) by E. Donald Two-Rivers
1999
Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life (Camino del Sol) by Luis Alberto Urrea
1999
Just My Soul Responding by Brian Ward
1999
Bitter Grounds by Sandra Benitez
1998
Dog Road Woman by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
1998
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday by Angela Y. Davis
1998
Underworld by Don DeLillo
1998
The Birth of Bebop: A Social and Musical History (Roth Family Foundation Music in America Book) by Scott DeVeaux
1998
Comfort Woman by Nora Okja Keller
1998
The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade by Thomas Lynch
1998
All Saints: New and Selected Poems by Brenda Marie Osbey
1998
Love Like Gumbo (Fjord Discoveries, No 2) by Nancy Rawles
1998
Safari West by John A. Williams
1998
Et Tu ... Raza by Alurista
1997
Black Intellectuals: Race and Responsibility in American Life by William M. Banks
1997
The Post-Rapture Diner (Pitt Poetry Series) by Dorothy Barresi
1997
Gospel Choirs: Psalms Of Survival In An Alien Land Called Home by Derrick Bell
1997
The Maker of Saints by Thulani Davis
1997
Imagine the Angels of Bread: Poems by Martín Espada
1997
Dreams of the Centaur: A Novel by Montserrat Fontes
1997
The New World Border: Prophecies, Poems, and Loqueras for the End of the Century by Guillermo Gómez-Peña
1997
Derby Dugan's Depression Funnies by Tom De Haven
1997
Race Traitor by Noel Ignatiev
1997
Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution by Brenda Knight
1997
Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands (The Cross-Cultural Memoir Series) by Shirley Geok-lin Lim
1997
Contours Of The Heart (Asian American Writers Worksh) by Sunaina Maira
1997
Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie
1996
Life Sentences: Writers, Artists, and AIDS by Thomas Avena
1996
The Physician of London: The Second Part of the Seventeenth-Century Trilogy of Nicholas Cooke by Stephanie Cowell
1996
Arranged Marriage: Stories by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
1996
Longing by Maria Espinosa
1996
The Tunnel by William H. Gass
1996
The Unbearable Heart by Kimiko Hahn
1996
Native Speaker by Chang-Rae Lee
1996
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong {original edition} by James W. Loewen
1996
One by One from the Inside Out : Essays and Reviews on Race and Responsibility in America by Glenn C. Loury
1996
A Woman in Amber: Healing the Trauma of War and Exile by Agate Nesaule
1996
Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America (Music/Culture) by Tricia Rose
1996
Palestine by Joe Sacco
1996
Sounding Off!: Music As Subversion/Resistance/Revolution by Ronald B. Sakolsky
1996
Archipelago by Arthur Sze
1996
Astoria: A Novel (Prose Series, No 26) by Robert Viscusi
1996
Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America by Herb Boyd
1995
Face of an Angel by Denise Chávez
1995
Speak Now Against The Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South by John Egerton
1995
The Light People: A Novel by Gordon Henry
1995
The Winged Seed: A Remembrance by Li-Young Lee
1995
I Am Becoming the Woman I've Wanted by Sandra Martz
1995
Green Fires: Assult on Eden: A Novel of the Ecuadorian Rainforest by Marnie Mueller
1995
Banished Children of Eve, A Novel of Civil War New York by Peter Quinn
1995
Rocking the Babies: A Novel by Linda Raymond
1995
Spidertown by Abraham Rodriguez
1995
Rebellion from the Roots: Indian Uprising in Chiapas by John Ross
1995
Crossing Ocean Parkway by Marianna De Marco Torgovnick
1995
Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe by Nicole Blackman
1994
Flood! A Novel In Pictures by Eric Drooker
1994
The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness by Paul Gilroy
1994
Daughters of Feminists by Rose L. Glickman
1994
Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter by Janet Campbell Hale
1994
Legends from Camp by Lawson Fusao Inada
1994
Wood-Hoopoe Willie by Virginia Kroll
1994
In Search of Bernabe by Graciela Limon
1994
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki
1994
Snake Poems by Francisco X. Alarcon
1993
The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874-1958 by Jack Beatty
1993
Elevating the Game: Black Men and Basketball by Nelson George
1993
Unquiet Earth by Denise Giardina
1993
Claiming Breath by Diane Glancy
1993
Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education by Gerald Graff
1993
We Gave Away a Fortune by Christopher Mogil
1993
Twice Blessed: A Novel by Ninotchka Rosca
1993
Prophetic Reflections: Notes on Race and Power in America by Cornel West
1993
Prophetic Thought in Postmodern Times by Cornel West
1993
Jessie and Jesus and Cousin Claire by Raymond Andrews
1992
Cebu by Peter Bacho
1992
Black Thunder: An Anthology of African-American Drama (Mentor Series) by William B. Branch
1992
Madam C.J. Walker (Black Americans of Achievement) by A'Lelia Perry Bundles
1992
Undocumented Love/Amor Indocumentado: A Personal Anthology of Poetry by Jose Antonio Burciaga
1992
Belonging to the Universe: Explorations on the Frontiers of Science and Spirituality by Fritjof Capra
1992
Hansberry's Drama (Meridian) by Steven A. Carter
1992
In the Realm of a Dying Emperor: Japan at Century's End by Norma Field
1992
Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence (African American Life Series) by Keith Gilyard
1992
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature by Donna J. Haraway
1992
The Last Fine Time by Verlyn Klinkenborg
1992
Calendar of Dust by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
1992
Beyond Deserving by Sandra Scofield
1992
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began by Art Spiegelman
1992
To the American Indian: Reminiscences of a Yurok Woman by Lucy Thompson
1992
The Unknown Internment: An Oral History of the Relocation of Italian Americans During World War II (Twayne Oral History
1992
Homesick: New and Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin
1991
Lakota Woman by Mary Brave Bird
1991
Terra Firma (National Poetry Series) by Thomas Centolella
1991
Overtime: Punchin' Out With the Mill Hunk Herald Magazine (1979-1989) by Mill Hunk Herald Collective
1991
Haa Tuwunaagu Yis, for Healing Our Spirit: Tlingit Oratory by Nora Marks Dauenhauer
1991
Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn
1991
In Mad Love and War by Joy Harjo
1991
Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics by bell hooks
1991
Looking for Home: Women Writing About Exile by Deborah Keenan
1991
The art and imagination of Langston Hughes by R. Baxter Miller
1991
The New American Splendor Anthology by Harvey Pekar
1991
Harvest Song: Collected Essays and Stories by Meridel Le Sueur
1991
Soldados: Chicanos in Viet Nam by Charley Trujillo
1991
Black Robes, White Justice by Bruce Wright
1991
Through the Arc of the Rain Forest by Karen Tei Yamashita
1991
Spider Woman's Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women by Paula Gunn Allen
1990
Black Athena: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization, Vol. 1: The Fabrication of Ancient Greece, 1785-1985 by Martin Gardiner Bernal
1990
Miles: The Autobiography by Miles Davis
1990
Hearts of Sorrow: Vietnamese-American Lives by James Freeman
1990
Women on War: Essential Voices for the Nuclear Age from a Brilliant International Assembly by Daniella Gioseffi
1990
Italian Days by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
1990
People Who Led to My Plays by Adrienne Kennedy
1990
The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women's Anthology by Shirley Geok-lin Lim
1990
Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China by Hualing Nieh
1990
Every Good-Bye Ain't Gone by Itabari Njeri
1990
Romans and Blacks by Lloyd A. Thompson
1990
Hand into Stone: Poems by Elizabeth Woody
1990
Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
1989
The Chinaman Pacific & Frisco R.R. Co. by Frank Chin
1989
Homemade Love by J. California Cooper
1989
The Columbia Literary History of the United States by Emory Elliott
1989
The Exiles of Erin: Nineteenth Century Irish-American Fiction by Charles Fanning
1989
Memory of Fire, Volume 1: Genesis by Eduardo Galeano
1989
The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism by Henry Louis Jr Gates
1989
The Right Thing to Do by Josephine Gattuso Hendin
1989
A Burst of Light by Audre Lorde
1989
From the Pyramids to the Projects: Poems of Genocide and Resistance! by Askia M. Touré
1989
Martin & Meditations on the South Valley by Jimmy Santiago Baca
1988
The Long Shadow of Little Rock by Daisy Bates
1988
Russia and the Negro: Blacks in Russian History and Thought by Allison Blakely
1988
The Reckoning by David Halberstam
1988
Songs of Gold Mountain: Cantonese Rhymes from San Francisco Chinatown by Marlon K. Hom
1988
Beloved by Toni Morrison
1988
The Collected Poems of Charles Olson: Excluding the Maximus Poems by Charles Olson
1988
The Boys of Bensonhurst by Salvatore LA Puma
1988
Tight Spaces by Kesho Scott
1988
Down and in: Life in the Underground by Ronald Sukenick
1988
Griever: An American Monkey King in China by Gerald Vizenor
1988
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1988
Sin by Ai
1987
Confessions of Madame Psyche by Dorothy Bryant
1987
The Mixquiahuala Letters by Ana Castillo
1987
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1987
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1987
The Essential Etheridge Knight by Etheridge Knight
1987
Practicing Angels: A Contemporary Anthology of San Francisco Bay Area Poetry by Michael Mayo
1987
Mama by Terry McMillan
1987
American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar by Harvey Pekar
1987
Fools Crow by James Welch
1987
Selected Poems: 1958-1984 by John Wieners
1987
The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writing by Italian American Women (Writing American Women) by Helen Barolini
1986
Smiles on Washington Square (A Love Story of Sorts) by Raymond Federman
1986
I Hear You Knockin : The Sound of New Orleans Rhythm and Blues by Jeff Hannusch
1986
Seeing Through the Sun by Linda Hogan
1986
My Emily Dickinson by Susan Howe
1986
Yokohama, California by Toshio Mori
1986
The Sun Is Not Merciful: Short Stories by Anna Lee Walters
1986
Irish Musicians/American Friends by Terence Winch
1986
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
1985
Ground Work: Before the War by Robert Duncan
1985
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
1985
Genthe's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown by Arnold Genthe
1985
Justice at War: The Story of the Japanese American Internment Cases by Peter Irons
1985
Poets Behind Barbed Wire by Jiro Nakano
1985
Homegirls and Handgrenades by Sonia Sanchez
1985
At Seventy: A Journal by May Sarton
1985
Living Up the Street by Gary Soto
1985
The Book of Jerusalem by Julia Vinograd
1985
Victory over Japan: A Book of Stories by Ellen Gilchrist
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Confirmation: An Anthology of African American Women by Imamu Amiri Baraka
1984
The Heat Bird by Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge
1984
Days Without Weather by Cecil Brown
1984
Breaking Silence: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian-American Poets by Joseph Bruchac
1984
A Puerto Rican in New York, and Other Sketches (New World Paperbacks) by Jesus Colon
1984
O Albany! by William J. Kennedy
1984
Pie-Biter by Ruthanne Lum McCunn
1984
Echoes Inside the Labyrinth by Thomas McGrath
1984
Citizen 13660 by Miné Okubo
1984
Axe Handles: Poems by Gary Snyder
1984
Not by the Sword by Nash Candelaria
1983
Black Women Novelists: The Development of a Tradition, 1892-1976 (Contributions in Afro-American and African Studies) by Barbara Christian
1983
Constructed Roman Alphabet by David Lance Goines
1983
Queen of Wands (Crossing Press Feminist Series) by Judy Grahn
1983
Lost Highway: Journeys and Arrivals of American Musicians by Peter Guralnick
1983
Pet Food and Tropical Apparitions by Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn
1983
Obasan by Joy Kogawa
1983
Duanaire, 1600-1900: Poems of the Dispossessed by Seán Ó Tuama
1983
Thirty An' Seen a Lot by Evangelina Vigil-Pinon
1983
!Click Song by John A. Williams
1983
Book of Jamaica by Russell Banks
1982
Emplumada (Pitt Poetry Series) by Lorna Dee Cervantes
1982
Chickencoop Chinaman and the Year of the Dragon by Frank Chin
1982
Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940 by Him Mark Lai
1982
Enclave by Tato Laviera
1982
Songs for the Harvester of Dreams: Poems by Duane Niatum
1982
Pre-Faces and Other Writings by Jerome Rothenberg
1982
Marked By Fire by Joyce Carol Thomas
1982
Bodies and Soul by Al Young
1982
The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara
1981
Back Then Tomorrow by Peter Blue Cloud
1981
Traveling light by Lionel Mitchell
1981
Felita by Nicholasa Mohr
1981
Scent of Apples: A Collection of Stories by Bienvenido N. Santos
1981
Tortuga: A Novel by Rudolfo Anaya
1980
Random Possession by Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge
1980
Hello LA Jolla by Edward Dorn
1980
Yellow Lola by Edward Dorn
1980
All I Asking for Is My Body by Milton Murayama
1980
Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
1980
Snake-Back Solos: Selected Poems 1969-1977. by Quincy Troupe
1980
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1980

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