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Afro-Americans & Hispanic-Americans
and Other Ethnicities
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The Harlem Renaissance [1919-36] Dept.
Tucson, Arizona School District Book Ban [2012] Dept.
 | "Black American Short Stories: One Hundred Years of The Best" [1993] Edited by John Henrik Clarke Hill & Wang 8¼x5¼ pb [1993] for $12.45 includes 38 tales by Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Toni Cade Bambara, Lerone Bennett Jr., Arna Bontemps, Frank London Brown, Sterling Brown, Charles Waddell Chesnutt, John Henrik Clarke, Eugenia W. Collier, Arthur P. Davis, John P. Davis, W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Rudolph Fisher, Hoyt W. Fuller, Ernest J. Gaines, Loyle Hairston, Martin J. Hamer, Chester Himes, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, LeRoi Jones, Jennifer Jordan, William Melvin Kelley, John O. Killens, Paule Marshall, Claude McKay, James Alan McPherson, Albert Murray, Carl Ruthven Offord, Ann Petry, Rosemarie Robotham, John Caswell Smith, Mary Elizabeth Vroman, Alice Walker, Richard Wright, and Frank Yerby |
 | "The Black 100: A Ranking of The Most Influential African-Americans, Past and Present" [orig 1993, rev 1998] by Colombus Salley
Citadel Press 9x6 pb [rev 1/98] for $18.21 Citadel Press hardcover [2/93] out of print/used Beyond the obvious – Martin Luther King, Jr. #1 & Frederick Douglass #2 – Afro-American artists and entertainers who made this list include Paul Robeson #24, Langston Hughes #34, Alex Haley #48, James Baldwin #49, Richard Wright #50, Zora Neale Hurston #52, Bill Cosby #62, Duke Ellington #67, Louis Armstrong #68, Toni Morrison #73, Lorraine Hansberry #77, Oscar Micheaux #81, Maya Angelou #85, Dick Gregory #88, Ruby Dee & Ossie Davis #91, Harry Belafonte #92, and Marian Anderson #94 |
American Authors Pages at Spirit of America Bookstore
on Page One: Early American Authors • Anthologies & Literary History
on Page Two: Early XXth Century Authors - A thru M
on Page Three: Early XXth Century Authors - N thru Z •
The Beats
on Page Four: Latter XXth Century Authors - A thru L
on Page Five: Latter XXth Century Authors - M thru Z
on Page Six: XX-XXIst Century Authors
The Harlem Renaissance [circa 1919 to circa 1936]
 | "Harlem Renaissance: Five Novels of The 1920s" [2011] Edited by Rafia Zafar Library of America 8¼x5 hardcover [9/2011] for $26.03 includes "Cane" [1923] by Jean Toomer, "Home To Harlem" [1928] by Claude McKay, "Quicksand" [1928] by Nella Larsen, "Plum Bun: A Novel Without A Moral" [1928] by Jessie Redmon Fauset, and "The Blacker The Berry" [1929] by Wallace Thurman |
 | "Harlem Renaissance: Four Novels of The 1930s" [2011] Edited by Rafia Zafar Library of America 8¼x5 hardcover [9/2011] for $26.60 includes "Not Without Laughter" [1931] by poet Langston Hughes, "Black No More" [1931] science fiction novel by George S. Schuyler, "The Conjure-Man Dies" [1932] detective novel by Rudolph Fisher, and "Black Thunder" [1936] by Arna Bontemps |
"Harlem Renaissance Novels: The Library of America Collection" Box Set [2011]
Library of America hardcover slipcover set [9/2011] for $44.10
 | "Harlem Renaissance" [1972 classic] by Nathan Irvin Huggins, new Foreword by Arnold Rampersad Oxford Univ Press 8x5¼ pb [5/2007] for $11.56 Oxford Univ Press hardcover [3/72] out of print/used |
 | "Voices From The Harlem Renaissance" [1976] Edited by Nathan Irvin Huggins over 120 selections from Gwendolyn Bennett, Eubie Blake, Arna Bontemps, Countee Cullen, W.E.B. DuBois, Jessie Redmond Fauset, Rudolph Fisher, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Alain Locke, Fenton Johnson, Helene Johnson, James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay, A. Philip Randolph, George S. Schuyler, Wallace Thurman, Jean Toomer, Dorothy West, Richard Wright, and others, with art by Richmond Barthé, Aaron Douglas, Palmer Hayden, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Archibald J. Motley, Augusta Savage & Hale Woodruff Oxford Univ Press 9¼x6 pb [1/95] for $24.99 Oxford Univ Press pb [1976] out of print/used |
 | "The Harlem Renaissance: Hub of African-American Culture, 1920-1930" [1995] by Steven Watson Pantheon 7¼x7¼ pb [8/96] for $13.35 Pantheon 7½x7½ hardcover [3/95] out of print/many used |
 | "The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader" [1995] Edited by David Levering Lewis poetry, prose, short fiction & self-contained novel excerpts (organized chronologically) of some forty-five Renaissance figures, including: Romare Bearden, Gwendolyn Bennett, Sterling Brown, Countee Cullen, W.E.B. Du Bois, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Marcus Garvey, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, Nella Larsen, Alain Locke, Claude McKay, Wallace Thurman, Jean Toomer, and Richard Wright Penguin 7¾x5 pb [6/95] for $13.60 Paw Prints 7¾x5 library hardcover [6/2008] for $27.00 |
http://www.amazon.com/Women-Harlem-Renaissance-Letters/dp/0253209803/
http://www.amazon.com/Renaissance-Encyclopedia-Library-American-History/dp/0816045399/
http://www.amazon.com/Harlem-Speaks-Living-History-Renaissance/dp/1402204361/
http://www.amazon.com/Modernism-Harlem-Renaissance-Houston-Baker/dp/0226035255/
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Culture-Harlem-Renaissance-Wintz/dp/089096761X/
http://www.amazon.com/Harlem-Renaissance-Black-White/dp/0674372638/
"The Novels of The Harlem Renaissance: Twelve Black Writers, 1923-1933" [Dec 1971] by Amritjit Singh
http://www.amazon.com/Novels-Harlem-Renaissance-Writers-1923-1933/dp/0271012080/
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Various responses are already occurring, including the Librotraficante movement to purchase the banned books elsewhere and smuggle them back into Arizona. Coded here are Amazon links for the Seven Major Offenders, as well as for several other authors and books (out of a total of fifty) that were 'Banned In Tucson'.
"Chicano!: The History of The Mexican American Civil Rights Movement" [1996]
"Critical Race Theory: An Introduction" [2001] by Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic
"500 Years of Chicano History" [1990] Edited by Elizabeth S. Martinez
"Message To Iztlan: Selected Writings of Rodolfo 'Corky' Gonzales" [2001]
"Occupied America: A History of Chicanos" [orig 1972] by Rodolfo Acuña
"Pedagogy of The Oppressed" [1968] by Paolo Friere
"Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years" [1992] Edited by Bill Bigelow & Bob Peterson
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"A Barbie-Doll Pocahontas" [] by Cornel Pewewardy
"A Friend of The Indians" [] by Joseph Bruchac
"A Place To Stand: The Making of A Poet" [2001] by Jimmy Santiago Baca
Kindle Edition from Grove Press [5/2001 edition] for $7.99
Grove Press 8¼x5½ pb [6/2002] for $10.20
Grove Press 8½x5¾ hardcover [5/2001] out of print/many used
"Black Mesa Poems" [] by Jimmy Santiago Baca
"By The Lake of Sleeping Children" [1996] by Luis Albert Urrea
Kindle Edition from Random House Digital [11/2010] for $9.99
Anchor Books 8x5¼ pb [9/96] for $10.99
"Ceremony" [] by Leslie Marmon
"The Delight Song of Tsoai-Talee" [] by N. Scott Momaday
"The Devil’s Highway" [] by Luis Albert Urrea
"Drown" [1996] by Junot Diaz
Kindle Edition from Penguin / Riverhead [7/97 edition] for $12.99
Riverhead Trade 8x5¼ pb [7/97] for $10.20
Riverhead 7¾x5 hardcover [8/96] out of print/dozens used
"The House On Mango Street" [] by Sandra Cisneros
"Justice: A Question of Race" [] by Rodriguez
"Like Water for Chocolate"
"The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight In Heaven" [22 stories 1993] by Sherman Alexie
Grove Press 8¼x5½ pb [2/2005] for $7.73
Atlantic Monthly Press 9x6 hardcover [1993] out of print/many used
"My Country, 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying" by Native Canadian Buffy Sainte-Marie
"Nobody's Son: Notes From An American Life" [1998] by Luis Albert Urrea
Univ Arizona Press 8x6½ pb [8/2002] for $14.95
Univ Arizona Press 10¾x8½ hardcover [8/98] out of print/many used
"Ocean Power, Poems From The Desert" [] by O'odham poet Ofelia Zepeda
"The Tempest" stageplay [1611] by Wm. Shakespeare [1564-1616]
Kindle Edition from Digireads [3/2004 edition] for $2.24 {sic}
Simon & Schuster mass pb [6/2004] for $5.99
Digireads 8x5 pb [2005] for $4.95
"Ten Little Indians" [] by Sherman Alexie
"Three Thousand Dollar Death Song" [] by Wendy Rose
"To The Women of The World: Our Future, Our Responsibility" [] by Winona LaDuke
"We Have No Reason To Celebrate" [] by Suzan Shown Harjo
"Why I'm Not Thankful For Thanksgiving" [] by Michael Dorris
"The X In La Raza" [] by Rodriguez
"Zapata's Disciple: Essays" [1999] by Martín Espada
South End Press 8¼x5½ pb [7/99] for $14.00
South End Press 8¾x5½ hardcover [7/99] out of print/used
and books by authors Ana Castillo, Dagoberto Gilb, and Henry David Thoreau [1817-62]
There are a total of about fifty books on the 'Banned in Tucson' proscribed list.
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www.latinawomensleague.org
National Latino Writers Conference [May 2012 = #10] in Albuquerque, NM
Authors, A to Z
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Rodolfo Acuña
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Sherman Alexie
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Spirit of America Bookstore's
New Mexico author Rudolfo Anaya Page
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Maya Angelou
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Jimmy Santiago Baca
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James Baldwin [1924-87]
browse books • browse audio • IMDb listing •
Broadway credits •
Wikipedia
Random House/Vintage James Baldwin pages
WB's James Baldwin page
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Raymond Carver [1938-88]
browse books • browse audio • credits at IMDb •
Wikipedia
PC's Raymond Carver fansite
PR's 'Carversite' fansite
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Ana Castillo
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Sandra Cisneros
http://www.sandracisneros.com/
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Dr. Vine Deloria, Jr. [1933-2005]: browse books
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Junot Diaz
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Ralph Ellison [1913-94]
browse books • IMDb listing •
Wikipedia
PBS documentary
AALBC's Ralph Ellison webpage
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Martín Espada
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Rudolph Fisher [1897-1934]
Wikipedia
"The Walls of Jericho" [1928 novel]
 | "The Conjure-Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem" [1932 classic] The first Afro-American detective in the first mystery novel by an Afro-American author; the victim is an African prince graduated from Harvard; the other main characters include a physician, a mortician, an N.Y.P.D. detective, and Bubber Brown, a former street cleaner turned private eye. Univ Michigan Press 8x5¼ pb [4/92] for $16.95 X Press 7¾x5 pb [1997] out of print/used Ayer Co. Publng 8¼x5¼ hardcover [12/92] for $35.95 8/2011 review at the FemmeNoir weblog |
"City of Refuge: The Collected Stories of Rudolph Fisher" [Univ Missouri Press anthology 1991]
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Dagoberto Gilb
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Rodolfo 'Corky' Gonzales
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Alex Haley [1921-92]
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Lorraine Hansberry [1930-65]
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gay black author E. Lynn Harris [1955-2009]
wrote ten consecutive New York Times bestsellers
browse books •
official website •
IMDb listing •
Wikipedia
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Chester B. Himes [1909-84]
browse books • IMDb listing •
Wikipedia
SWW's Chester B. Himes fansite
Friends of Chester Himes fansite
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Langston Hughes [1925-90]
browse books • IMDb listing •
Wikipedia
Langston Hughes page at A.A.L.B.C.
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Zora Neale Hurston [1891-1960]
browse books • browse DVDs • IMDb listing •
Wikipedia
KH's Zora Neale Hurston fansite
Zora Neale Hurston page at A.A.L.B.C.
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Winona LaDuke
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Nella Larsen [1891-1964]
http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Fiction-Nella-Larsen-Quicksand/dp/0385721005/
"Nella Larsen, Novelist of The Harlem Renaissance: A Woman's Life Unveiled" []
by Thadious M. Davis http://www.amazon.com/Nella-Larsen-Novelist-Harlem-Renaissance/dp/0807120707/
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William Least Heat-Moon
browse books •
movie credits •
Wikipedia
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L.A. Times columnist Al Martinez
browse books •
Los Angeles Times homepage
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Elizabeth S. Martinez
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filmmaker & novelist
Oscar Micheaux [1884-1951] Page
at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store
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N. Scott Momaday
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prize-winning Toni Morrison
browse books • Wikipedia
1988 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
1993 Nobel Prize in Literature
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Walter Mosley
BlackHat Mystery Bookstore's Walter Mosley Page
Easy Rawlins Mystery Novel Series
Fearless Jones Mystery Novel Series
Leonid McGill Mystery Novel Series
Socrates Fortlow Mystery Novel Series
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Luis J. Rodriguez
browse books •
official site •
Tia Chucha's •
L.R.N.A. •
agency page
novel "Music of The Mill"
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Ruben Salazar []
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Spirit of America Bookstore's
Armenian-American author
William Saroyan [1908-81] Page
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playwright & poet Ntozake Shange
books •
movie & TV credits •
Wikipedia
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Yiddish-American author
Isaac Bashevis Singer [1904-71]
browse books • IMDb listing •
Broadway credits •
Wikipedia
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Luis Albert Urrea
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Luis Valdez
browse books • videos/DVDs •
Broadway credits •
credits at IMDb
El Teatro Campesino [est. 1965]
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Víctor Villaseñor: books • official website
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Alice Walker [1921-92]
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Richard Wright [1908-60]
browse books • IMDb listing •
Wikipedia
University of Buffalo's Richard Wright website
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Frank Yerby [1916-91]
browse books (out of print) •
IMDb listing •
Wikipedia
Authors A to Z audio works at Amazon
American Authors Pages at Spirit of America Bookstore
here on Page One: Early American Authors • Anthologies & Literary History
on Page Two: Early XXth Century Authors - A thru M
on Page Three: Early XXth Century Authors - N thru Z •
The Beats
on Page Four: Latter XXth Century Authors - A thru L
on Page Five: Latter XXth Century Authors - M thru Z
on Page Six: XX-XXIst Century Authors
here on the Ethnic-American Authors Page
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