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HUM 260 - Intercultural Perspectives: Authors

Exploring the literary and artistic works of American Indians and Asian, Black, and Hispanic Americans.

Native American Authors

(including American Indian, Alaska & Hawaiian Natives)

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Alexie, Sherman
Allen, Paula Gunn
Baca, Jimmy Santiago
Bitsui, Sherwin
Davenport, Kiana
Deloria, Vine
Dorris, Michael
Endrezze, Anita
Erdrich, Louise
Glancy, Diane
Harjo, Joy
Hogan, Linda
Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawaii
McNickle, D’Arcy
Momaday, N. Scott
Nalaielua, Henry Kalalahilimoku
Ortiz, Simon
Power, Susan
Reed, Ishmael
Silko, Leslie Marmon
Smelcer, John
Tapahonso, Luci
Tyau, Kathleen
Vizenor, Gerald
Walker, Alice
Welch, James
Zepeda Ofelia
 

 

Latino Authors

Alarcon, Francisco X.
Allende, Isabel
Alvarez, Julia
Anaya, Rudolfo A.
Anzaldua, Gloria
Arenas, Reinaldo
Baca, Jimmy Santiago
Casares, Oscar
Castillo, Ana
Chavez, Denise
Cisneros, Sandra
Cofer, Judith Ortiz
Diaz, Junot
Espada, Martin
Garcia, Nasario
Hijuelos, Oscar
Hinojosa, Rolando
Mohr, Nicholasa
Mora, Pat
Rechy, John
Ríos, Alberto
Rivera, Tomas
Rodriguez, Richard
Sanchez, Thomas
Santiago, Esmeralda

Soto, Gary
Urrea, Luis Alberto
Villarreal, Jose Antonio
Viramontes, Helena Maria

African American Authors

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Angelou, Maya
Baldwin, James
Bambara, Toni Cade
Baraka, Imamu Amiri (LeRoi Jones)
Bontemps, Arna Wendell
Brooks, Gwendolyn
Brown, Claude
Brown, William Wells
Campbell, Bebe Moore
Cleaver, Eldridge
Clifton, Lucille
Cullen, Countée
Davis, Angela Y.
Delany, Samuel R.
Dorris, Michael
Douglass, Frederick
Dove, Rita
Du Bouis, W. E. B.
Dunbar, Paul Laurence
Ellison, Ralph
Fauset, Jessie Redmon
Fisher, Rudolph
Fuller, Charles
Gaines, Ernest J.
Giovanni, Nikki
Hansberry, Lorraine
Harper, Michael S.
Hayden, Robert
Himes, Chester
Hughes, Langston
Hurston, Zora Neale
Iceberg Slim
Johnson, Charles
Johnson, James Weldon
Jones, Gayl
Kennedy, Adrienne
Kincaid, Jamaica
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Larsen, Nella
Lorde, Audre
McKay, Claude
McMillan, Terry
Morrison, Toni
Naylor, Gloria
Petry, Ann
Reed, Ishmael
Sanchez, Sonia
Schuyler, George S.
Shange, Ntozake
Steele, Shelby
Walker, Alice
Washington, Booker T.
Wideman, John Edgar
Wilson, August
Wright, Jay
Wright, Richard
Malcolm X

 

Asian/Pacific American Authors

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Bulosan, Carlos
Chang, Diana
Chin, Frank
Chu, Louis H.
Davenport, Kiana
Ford, Jamie
Hagedorn, Jessica Tarahata
Hamamura, John
Hayslip, Le Ly
Hongo, Garrett Kaoru
Hwang, David Henry
Kadohata, Cynthia Lynn
Kingston, Maxine Hong
Kogawa, Joy
Lau, Evelyn
Law-Yone, Wendy
Lee, Cesar
Lee, Chang-Rae
Lee, Gus
Lee, Li-Young
Li, Yinyun
Lim, Shirley Geok-Lin
Lin, Francie
Mehta, Ved
Min, Anchee
Mukherjee, Bharati
Mun, Nami
Mura, David
Murayama, Milton
Nalaielua, Henry

Newman, Chi
Ng, Fae Myenne
Okada, John
Saiki, Jessica Kawasuna
See, Lisa
Song, Cathy
Tan, Amy
Tyau, Kathleen
Umrigar, Thrity
West, Linda
Wong, Jade Snow
Yamada, Mitsuye Yasutake
Yamamoto, Hisaye

Muslim American Authors

Abu-Jaber, Diana
Erian, Alicia

Gibran, Khalil 
Halaby, Laila
Hosseini, Khaled
Kahf, Mohja
Nye, Naomi Shihab
Orfalea, Gregory
Zakaria, Fareed