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  • Portrait of Maxine Hong Kingston
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    Maxine Hong Kingston

    …legal barriers in the United States. The title is a repudiation of the slur “Chinaman” and is accurate to the way men from China referred to themselves. Notoriously, Kingston’s editor…

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    The Family Chao

    Lan Samantha Chang

    …her fully-formed – uncouth, sensual, loud — a Chinese immigrant with three sons and an illegitimate fourth offspring – well before she realized her story could pluck some ripe plot…

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    The Woman Warrior

    Maxine Hong Kingston

    …memory.” Hong Kingston’s two-part autobiography, The Woman Warrior (1976) and China Men (1980), explores gender constraints, assimilation, and intergenerational conflicts experienced by Chinese immigrants living in California. The Woman Warrior,…

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    Kachinas

    Barton Wright

    This volume is an essential for kachina collectors. Author Barton Wright is known as the authority on Hopi kachinas and this book, his major work, shows why. It contains descriptions…

  • Portrait of Oprah Winfrey
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    Oprah Winfrey

    …her live your best life message to another broad audience. Producer/Actress Through her company’s film division, Harpo Films, she has produced projects based on classic and contemporary literature that have…

  • Photo of Yusef Komunyakka
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    Yusef Komunyakaa

    …he has taken writers and readers on an intimate journey into their interior.  In 2025, two of his former students—John Murillo and Nicole Sealey—released a new anthology of essays, letters,…

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    Memorial Drive

    Natasha Trethewey

    …render me illegitimate in the eyes of the law, a place that tried to remind Black people for centuries of our second-class status with Confederate monuments, with the Confederate flag,…

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    The New World of Negro Americans

    Harold R. Isaacs

    …a first-rate, fascinating book, which has the materials for a full comprehension of the Negro American Revolution in the United States. Based upon a wide and deep knowledge of Negro…

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    September 29 – October 4, 2020

    …nephew, Emmett Louis Till. Based on a true story. One Word Sawalmen (19 minutes) One Word Sawalmem is born from one question: what is one word from your ancestral language…

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    The Fortunes

    Peter Ho Davies

    …fourth story follows John Ling Smith, a Chinese-American writer who speaks no Mandarin or Cantonese. He and his wife visit China to adopt a daughter. “The Fortunes is a boldly…

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    Feeding Ghosts

    Tessa Hulls

    …Feeding Ghosts, is a compendious multi-generational epic combining a sweeping history of twentieth century China with an intimate, extraordinary family story. Stories indeed – our most precious inheritance – lie…

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    A Many-Splendored Thing

    Han Suyin

    …than fourteen additional books that combine social commentary, autobiography, and biography of persons such as Communist revolutionary Chou En-lai. Suyin was born in Sinyang, China in 1917. She received her…

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    The Healing of a Nation

    David Loye

    …composed of scholars from Italy, France, Finland, Hungary, Russia, China and the United States, as well as an editor of the group’s journal World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution….

  • Portrait of Ishmael Reed
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    Ishmael Reed

    …bullseye would land on his back. Instead, Blank and Reed married, and together nurtured a host of creative tendrils. Blank directed Reed’s play “Mother Hubbard” in Hunan, China. She became…

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    To Sir, With Love

    E.R. Braithwaite

    To Sir, With Love is an inspiring autobiographical novel set in the East End of London based on true events concerned with Braithwaite taking up a teaching post in a…

  • Portrait of Gordon Parks
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    Gordon Parks

    …a World War II newsreel by documentary filmmaker Norman Alley, Parks resolved to become a photographer. Based in Saint Paul, Minnesota, the self-taught Parks immediately showed an original eye for…

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    Simple Takes a Wife

    Langston Hughes

    …Carmel, Hughes wrote his first collection of short stories, The Ways of White Folks (1934). He finished the decade with several successful plays, including Mulatto, loosely based on his grandfather’s…

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    African Ark

    Carol Beckwith

    …was based upon three years of field research living and speaking with the Wodaabe nomads and was broadcast as a television film in 1988 by National Geographic. In 1991 Beckwith…

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    Black Metropolis

    St. Clair Drake

    Groundbreaking when first published in 1945, Black Metropolis remains a landmark study of race and urban life. Based on a mass of research conducted by Works Progress Administration field workers…

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    Nazis in Skokie

    Donald Alexander Downs

    In 1977, a Chicago-based Nazi group announced its plans to demonstrate in Skokie, Illinois, the home of hundreds of Holocaust survivors. The shocked survivor community rose in protest and the…