MULTICULTURAL LABELS
at Dobson High School
African-American List
Angelou, Maya – I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and I Shall Not Be Moved and Even the
Stars Look Lonesome and On the Pulse of Morning and more.
Baldwin, James – The Amen Corner and The Evidence of Things Not Seen and One Day, When I
Was Lost: a Scenario and more.
Bontemps, Arna – The Poetry of the Negro, 1746-1970 and American Negro Poetry
Brooks, Gwendolyn – Maud Martha and In the Mecca: Poems and more.
Brown, Claude – Manchild in the Promised Land
Connikie, Yvonne – Fashions of a Decade. The 1960s.
Cullen, Countee – On These I Stand: an Anthology of the Best Poems of Countee Cullen
Douglass, Frederick – Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Ellison, Ralph – Invisible Man and Juneteenth and Going to the Territory
Evans, Mari – Black Woman Writers (1950-1980): a Critical Evaluation
Giovanni, Nikki – My House: Poems and The Women and the Men and Racism 101 and more.
Grimes, Nikki – Bronx Masquerade and A Dime A Dozen
Guy, Rosa – The Disappearance and The Friends
Haley, Alex – Alex Haley’s Queen: the Story of an American Family and The Autobiography of
Malcolm X and Roots and One Day When I Was Lost: a Scenario
Hamilton, Virginia – Arilla Sun Down and Dustland and The Gathering and A White Romance
and Justice and Her Brothers and Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush and more.
Hansberry, Lorraine – A Raisin in the Sun: a drama in three acts
Hughes, Langston – Five Plays and I Wonder as I Wander: an Autobiographical Journey and
The Panther and the Lash: Poems of our Times and more.
Hurston, Zora Neal – Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Complete Stories
Johnson, James Weldon – God’s Trombones; Seven Negro Sermons in Verse and The Books of
American Negro Spirituals
King, Martin Luther Jr. – Why We Can’t Wait and Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or
Community and I Have a Dream and more.
Lester, Julius – Young and Black in America and Do Lord Remember Me and Day of Tears: a
novel in dialogue and This Strange New Feeling and When Dad Killed Mom
Malcolm X – One Day, When I Was Lost: a scenario and The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Marshall, Paule – Brown Girl, Brownstones and The Chosen Place, the Timeless People and
Daughters and Praisesong for the Widow and more.
Mathabane, Mark – Kaffir Boy: the True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid
South Africa
McMillan, Terry – Waiting to Exhale and Mama and A Day Late and a Dollar Short
Morrison, Toni – The Bluest Eye and Beloved and Tar Baby and Song of Solomon and more.
Myers, Walter Dean - Somewhere in the Darkness and Slam! and Shooter and more.
Neufeld, John – Edgar Allen and Twink and Sunday Father and Lisa, Bright and Dark and A
Small Civil War
Petry, Ann – Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad
Rhodes, Jewell Parker – Voodoo Dreams: a novel of Marie Laveau
Sanders, Dori - Clover
Taylor, Mildred D. – Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry and The Land and Let the Circle be
Unbroken and The Road to Memphis
Thomas, Joyce Carol – Marked by Fire
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Walker, Alice – The Color Purple and Meridian and Possessing the Secret of Joy and more.
Walker, Margaret – Black Foremothers: Three Lives and I Wonder as I Wander: an
Autobiographical Journey and Jubilee
West, Dorothy – The Wedding
Williams-Garcia, Rita – No laughter here and Fast Talk on a Slow Track and Like Sisters on the
Homefront and Every Time a Rainbow Dies and Jumped
Woodson, Jacqueline – The Dear One and If You Come Softly and Miracle’s Boys and more.
Wright, Richard – Black Boy: a Record of Childhood and Youth and American Hunger
Asian-American list
 Chinese - American
Jiang, Ji-Li – Red Scarf Girl: a memoir of the Cultural Revolution
Jin, Ha – Waiting
Kingston, Maxine Hong – The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Lee, Gus – China Boy
Mah, Adeline Yen – Chinese Cinderella: the True Story on an Unwanted Daughter and
Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society and Falling Leaves: the True
Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter
Namioka, Lensey – Ties that Bind, Ties that Break and An Ocean Apart, A World Away
Tan, Amy – The Hundred Secret Senses and The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God’s
Wife and Saving Fish From Drowning and The Bonesetter’s Daughter
Yep, Laurence – Child of the Owl and Liar, Liar and Mountain Light and American
Dragons: Twenty-Five Asian American Voices
 Japanese – American
Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki – Farewell to Manzanar: a True Story of Japanese
American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
Ishiguro, Kazuo – Never Let Me Go
Uchida, Yoshiko – Picture Bride and Desert Exile: the Uprooting of a Japanese
American Family and Journey to Topaz: a Story of the Japanese-American
evacuation
Cuban-American list
Garcia, Cristina – Dreaming in Cuban
Native American List
Allen, Paula Gunn – Spider Woman’s Granddaughters
Carter, Forrest – Watch for me on the Mountain and The Education of Little Tree
Deloria, Vine – God is Red
Hale, Janet Campbell – The Owl’s Song
Highwater, Jamake – Eyes of Darkness and Many Smokes, Many Moons: a Chronology of
American Indian History Through Indian Art and Native Land: Sagas of the Indian
Americas and more.
Kroeber, Theodora – Ishi, Last of His Tribe
Lopez, Barry – Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape and Of Wolves
and Men
Momaday, N. Scott – The Names: a memoir and The Way to Rainy Mountain and House Made
of Dawn
Shaw, Anna Moore – Pima Indian Legends
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Silko, Leslie Marmon - Ceremony
Welch, James – Fools Crow and The Indian Lawyer and Killing Custer: The Battle of Little
Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians
Puerto Rican list
Santiago, Esmeralda – Almost a Woman
Hispanic list
Allende, Isabel – Paula and The House of Spirits and Eva Luna and Zorro: a novel and more.
Alvarez, Julia – Before We Were Free and Finding Miracles and How the Garcia Girls Lost
Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies and The Other Side: El otro lado
Anaya, Rudolfo – Bless Me, Ultima and The Anaya Reader and Albuquerque and more.
Castillo, Ana – The Underdogs: a Novel of the Mexican Revolution and So Far From God
Cisneros, Sandra – The House on Mango Street and Caramelo, or, Puro cuento and Woman
Hollering Creek
Esquivel, Laura – Like Water for Chocolate
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel – Strange Pilgrims: Twelve Stories and One Hundred Years of
Solitude and Love in a Time of Cholera and Chronicle of a Death Foretold and more.
Hijuelos, Oscar – The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
Jimenez, Francisco – Breaking Through and The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant
Child and La mariposa
Martinez, Victor – Parrot in the Oven
Mohr, Nicholasa – El Bronx Remembered: a novella and stories and Nilda
Neruda, Pablo – Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda
Niggli, Josephina – Mexican Village
Ortiz Cofer, Judith – An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio
Rios, Alberto – Teodoro Luna’s Two Kisses: Poems and The Iguana Killer: Twelve Stories of the
Heart and Capirotada: a Nogales Memoir
Rivera, Tomas – …y no se lo trago la tierra
Rodriguez, Richard – Hunger of Memory: the Education of Richard Rodriguez: an
Autobiography
Thomas, Piri – Down These Mean Streets
Soto, Gary – Buried Onions and The Afterlife and Baseball in April and other stories and Jesse
and Petty Crimes and more.
Ulibarri, Sabine – Tierra Amarilla: Stories of New Mexico
Polish American list
Yezierska, Anzia – Bread Givers
Vietnamese-American List
Hayslip, Le Ly – When Heaven and Earth Changed Places
Miscellaneous
Bennett, James W. – Dakota Dream and The Squared Circle and Plunking Reggie Jackson
Buck, Pearl S. – The Good Earth and Death in the Castle and The Big Wave
Chopin, Kate – The Awakening and A Matter of Prejudice and Other Stories
Griffin, John – Black Like Me and The Comanche People and The Coushatta People
Hillerman, Tony – Dance Hall of the Dead and The Dark Wind and The Fallen Man
Lipsyte, Robert – The Chief and The Contender and Yellow Flag and The Brave
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Potok, Chaim – The Chosen and Wanderings: Chaim Potok’s History of the Jews
Steiner, Jean-Francois – Treblinka
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