Our August exhibit at UNA Gallery featured 334 books by writers of color, 270 of which were purchased for the collection or donated by authors or presses, and the remaining 64 were loaned to the collection for the exhibit by Dao Strom, Neil Aitken, and another local writer. Although poetry is the most represented genre (210), the archive also contains fiction (43), creative non-fiction (28), non-fiction (15), as well as graphic novels, hybrid texts, art books, zines, and anthologies. The following list is not intended to be final or exhaustive, but instead to offer a snapshot as to where we are -- and hopefully inspire others to try some new titles or revisit old favorites. We will continue to add to our archive and will provide updated lists in the new year.
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Abreu, Manuel Arturo, transtrender
Acevedo, Elizabeth, Beastgirl & Other Origin Myths
Adams-Santos, Stephanie, Swarm Queen's Crown
Adams-Santos, Stephanie, Total Memory
Afghan Women's Writing Project, Washing the Dust From Our Hearts
Aitken, Neil, Babbage's Dream
Aitken, Neil, The Lost Country of Sight
Akbar, Kaveh, Portrait of the Alcoholic
Alexander, Meena, Quickly Changing River
Alexander, Meena, The Shock of Arrival:
Reflections on Postcolonial Experience
Alexander, Michelle, The New Jim Crow
Alexie, Sherman, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Alexie, Sherman, You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
Ali, Agha Shahid, Call Me Ishmael Tonight
Ali, Kazim, Bright Felon
Ali, Kazim, The Fortieth Day
Alluri, Hari, The Flayed City
Als, Hilton, White Girls
Anastacia-Reneé, (v.)
Anzaldua, Gloria, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
Anzaldua, Gloria, This Bridge Called My Back
Arrieu-King, Cynthia, People Are Tiny in Paintings of China
Asghar, Fatimah, After
Attar (transl. Sholeh Wolpé), The Conference of the Birds
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Baldwin, James, Collected Essays: Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The
Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other Essays
Barnes, Aziza, I Be, But I Ain't
Barot, Rick, The Darker Fall
Barry, Quan, Asylum
Bashir, Samiya, Field Theories
Bermejo, Xochitl-Julisa, Posada: Offerings of Witness and Refuge
Berssenbrugge, Mei-mei, Four Year Old Girl
Berssenbrugge, Mei-mei, Hello, the Roses
Berssenbrugge, Mei-mei, I Love Artists
Berssenbrugge, Mei-mei, Nest
Borges, Jorge Luis, In Praise of Darkness
Brings Plenty, Trevino, Ghost River
Brings Plenty, Trevino, Real Indian Junk Jewelry
Brown, F. Douglas, Zero to Three
Bui, Thi, The Best We Could Do
Bulosan, Carlos, America is in the Heart
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Camp, Lauren, One Hundred Hungers
Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung, Dictee.
Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung, Exilee / Temps Morts
Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung, The Dream of the Audience: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-1982)
Chandra, Vikram, Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, The Code of Beauty
Chao, Geneve, one of us is wave one of us is shore
Che, Cathy Linh, Split
Chen, Chen, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
Chen, Ching-In. The Heart’s Traffic.
Cheng, Jennifer S., House A
Cheng, Jennifer S., Invocation: An Essay
Chew-Bose, Durga, Too Much and Not the Mood
Chin-Tanner, Wendy, Turn
Chin, Frank (editor), Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asian-American Writers
Chin, Kazumi, Having a Coke with Godzilla
Choi, Chiwan, Abductions
Choi, Don Mee, Hardly War
Chuc, Teresa Mei, Red Thread
Cole, Teju, Blind Spot
Cole, Teju, Every Day Is for the Thief
Cole, Teju, Known and Strange Things
Cole, Teju, Open City
Collins, Patricia Hill, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of
Empowerment
Corral, Eduardo C., Slow Lightning
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Darraj, Susan Muaddi, The Inheritance of Exile
Darwish, Mahmoud, If I Were Another (transl. Fady Joudah)
Davis, Angela Y., Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
Davis, Angela Y., Women, Race & Class
de la Paz, Oliver, Requiem for the Orchard
Der Vang, Mai, Afterland
Deshpande, Jay, Love the Stranger
Deshpande, Jay. The Rest of the Body
Diaz, Junot, Drown
Diaz, Natalie, When My Brother Was an Aztec
Diggs, Latasha N. Nevada, Twerk
Duong, Lan, Treacherous Subjects: Gender, Culture, and Trans-Vietnamese Feminism
Durrow, Heidi, The Girl Who Fell From the Sky
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Ebeid, Carolina, You Ask Me To Talk About the Interior
Espada, Martin, The Trouble Ball
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Faizullah, Tarfia, Seam
Francis, Vievee, Horse in the Dark
Frazier, Santee, Dark Thirty
Fusco, Coco, English Is Broken Here.
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Gadson, Jonterri, Blues Triumphant
Galeano, Eduardo, Memory of Fire: (II)
Galeano, Eduardo. Memory of Fire: Century of WInd
Galeano, Eduardo. Memory of Fire: Genesis
Gay, Ross, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
Gay, Roxane, Hunger
Gee, Yun, Yun Gee: Poetry, Writings, Art, Memories
Girmay, Aracelis, The Black Maria
Gladman, Renee, Calamities
Gloria, Eugene, Hoodlum Birds
Gonzalez, Rigoberto, Unpeopled Eden
Gulig, Nicholas, North of Order
Gutiérrez, Cindy Williams, The Small Claim of Bones
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Hagedorn, Jessica, Dogeaters
Hagedorn, Jessica, The Gangster of Love.
Harper, Amy Temple, Cramped Uptown
Harvey, Yona, Hemming the Water
Hayes, Terrance, Wind in a Box
Herrera, Juan Felipe. 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross the Border: Undocuments, 1971-2007.
Herrera, Juan Felipe. Notes on the Assemblage
Herrick, Lee, Gardening Secrets of the Dead
Heshiki, Kazumi, Fireweed Blossoms
Hoang, Lily, A Bestiary
Hoang, Lily, Parabola
Hogan, Linda, The Book of Medicines
Hong, Cathy Park, Dance Dance Revolution
Hong, Cathy Park, Engine Empire
Hong, Cathy Park, Translating Mo'um
Hongo, Garrett, Yellow Light
Hunter, Lyric, Motherwort
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Imarisha, Walidah, Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption
Inada, Lawson, Legends from Camp
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Jackson, Gary, Missing You, Metropolis
Jarrar, Randa, Him, Me, Muhammad Ali
Jeon, Joseph Jonghyun, Racial Things, Racial Forms: Objecthood in Avant-Garde Asian American Poetry
Jess, Tyehimba, Leadbelly
Jess, Tyehimba, Olio
John, Simone, Testify
Jordan, A. Van, Macnolia
Jordan, June, Soldier A Poets Childhood
Joudah, Fady, Textu
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Kahn, Peter; Shankar, Ravi; Smith, Patricia (editors), The Golden Shovel Anthology: New Poems Honoring Gwendolyn Brooks
Kaneko, Todd, The Dead Wrestler Elegies
Kapil, Bhanu, Ban En Banlieue
Kapil, Bhanu, The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers
Kearney, Douglas, Fear, Some
Kearney, Douglas, The Black Automaton
Keeler, Jacqueline (ed), Edge of Morning: Native Voices
Kim Kyung Ju, I Am A Season That Doesn't Exist In The World
Kingston, Maxine Hong, Woman Warrior: Memoir of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Komuyakaa, Yusef, Dien Cai Dau
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L'Esperance, Mari, The Darkened Temple
La Priesteza, A Modern Vernacular
Lahiri, Jhumpa, In Other Words
Lahiri, Jhumpa, Interpreter of Maladies
Lai, Him Mark; Lim, Genny; Yung, Judy (editors), ISLAND: Poetry and History of Chinese
Immigrants on Angel Island 1910-1940
Lai, Larissa, Automaton Biographies
Lawson, Shayla, A Speed Education in Human Being
Lawson, Shayla, PANTONE
le thi diem thuy. The Gangster We Are All Looking For.
Lee, Chang-Rae, Native Speaker
Lee, Li-Young, Rose
Lee, Li-Young, The City in Which I Love You
Leigh, Eugenia, Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows
Lewis, Robin Coste, Voyage of the Sable Venus
Limon, Ada, Bright Dead Things
Lin, Jane, Day of Clean Brightness
Lin, Michelle, A House Made of Water
Linmark, R. Zamora. Pop Verite
Liu, Kenji, Map of an Onion
Liu, Marjorie, Monstress: Vol. 1,
Long Soldier, Layli, WHEREAS
Lorde, Audre, The Cancer Journals
Lorde, Audre, Zami A New Spelling of My Name
Lorde, Audre, Sister Outsider.
Luiselli, Valeria, Faces In the Crowd
Luiselli, Valeria, Tell Me How It Ends
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Mao, Sally Wen, Mad Honey Symposium
Martinez, Marisol Limon, Via Dissimulata
McCrae, Shane, In the Language of My Captor
Mei-en, Lo Kwa, Yearling
Mitsui, James Masao, Crossing the Phantom River
Mojgani, Anis, The Pocketknife Bible
Moten, Fred, In the Break: Aesthetics of The Black Radical Tradition
Murillo, John, Up Jump the Boogie
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Nao, Vi Khi, Fish In Exile
Nao, Vi Khi, The Old Philosopher
Nao, Vi Khi, The Vanishing Point of Desire
Negroni, Maria, Night Journey
Neruda, Pablo, The Sea and the Bells
Nguyen Qui Duc, Where the Ashes Are
Nguyen, Hieu Minh, This Way to the Sugar
Nguyen, Hoa, As Long As Trees Last
Nguyen, Hoa, Red Juice
Nguyen, Hoa, Violet Energy Ingots
Nguyen, Viet Thanh, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
Nguyen, Viet Thanh, The Refugees
Nobua, Ayukawa, American & Other Poems
Noel, Urayoan, Buzzing Hemisphere.
Nye, Naomi Shihab, Transfer
Nye, Naomi Shihab, You & Yours
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Okada, John., No-No Boy,
okpik, dg nanouk.Corpse Whale.
Ono, Yoko, Grapefruit.
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Pamuk, Orhan, The White Castle
Parker, Morgan, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce
Paz, Octavio, Sunstone
Pelaud, Isabelle Thuy, This is all I choose to tell: History and Hybridity in Vietnamese American Literature
Pelaud/Duong/Lam/Nguyen (editors), Troubling Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora
Pereira, Malin, Into a Light Both Brilliant and Unseen: Conversations with Contemporary Black Poets
Perez, Craig Santos, from Unincorporated Territory [HACHA]
Perez, Craig Santos, from Unincorporated Territory [SAINA]
Pham, Andrew X., Catfish and Mandala
Phi, Bao, Sông I Sing
Phi, Bao, Thousand Star Hotel
Pico, Tommy, Nature Poem
Piñero, Miguel. Outlaw.
Plascencia, Salvador, The People of Paper
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Queen, Khadijah, I'm So Fine: A List of Famous Men and What I Had On
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Rankine, Claudia, Citizen
Rankine, Claudia, Don't Let Me Be Lonely
Rankine, Claudia (edited anthology), The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind
Razvi, Saba, In the Crocodile Gardens
Reddy, Srikanth, Voyager
Reed, Justin Phillip, A History of Flamboyance
Rekdal, Paisley, Animal Eye
Rekdal, Paisley, Imaginary Vessels
Rekdal, Paisley, Intimate: An American Family Photo Album
Reyes, Barbara Jane, Poeta en San Francisco.
Rhee, Margaret, Radio Heart: Or, How Robots Fall Out of Love
Roripaugh, Lee Ann, Beyond Heart Mountain
Rosario, Nelly, Song of the Water Saints
Roxas-Chua, Sam, Fawn Language
Roy, Arundhati, Capitalism: A Ghost Story
Roy, Arundhati, The End of Imagination
Russo / Mohanty / Torres, Third World Women & the Politics of Feminism
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Saito, Brynn, The Palace of Contemplating Departure
Santiago, Esmeralda, When I Was Puerto Rican
Satrapi, Marjane, The Complete Persepolis
Shange, Ntozake, for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf.
Sharif, Solmaz, Look
Shepard, Karen, The Celestials
Shimoda, Brandon, Portuguese
Shin, Sun Young, Unbearable Splendor
Shirali, Raena, Gilt
Shire, Warsan, teaching my mother how to give birth
Sigo, Cedar, Language Arts
Silko, Leslie Marmon, Ceremony
Silko, Leslie Marmon, Storyteller.
Simpson, Lorna, Lorna Simpson: Works on Paper
Smith, Danez, [insert boy]
Smith, Danez, Black Movie
Smith, Tracy K., Life on Mars
Som, Brandon, The Tribute Horse
Strom, Dao, Grass Roof, Tin Roof
Strom, Dao, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys
Strom, Dao, We Were Meant to Be a Gentle People
Suzara, Aimee, Souvenir.
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Tabios, Eileen (ed.), Black Lightning: Poetry-in-Progress
Tanazaki, Junichiro, In Praise of Shadows
Tawada, Yoko, Where Europe Begins
Tenorio, Lysley, Monstress
Tran, Barbara, In the Mynah Bird's Own Words
Tran, GB, Vietnamerica
Tran, Stacey, Fake Haiku
Trethewey, Natasha, Native Guard
Tseng, Jennifer, The Man with My Face
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Vang, Soul, How Do I Begin? A Hmong American Literary Anthology
Villa, Jose Garcia, Doveglion: Collected Poems
Vo, Anna (editor), Fix My Head: Complexity - Issue 10
Vo, Anna (editor), Fix My Head: Punx of Color / Total Liberation - Issue 9
Vo, Anna (editor), Fix My Head: QTPOC Punk Artists - Issue 6
Vuong, Ocean, Night Sky with Exit Wounds
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Wah, Fred, Diamond Grill
Walters, Wendy S., Multiply/Divide
Ward, Jesmyn, The Fire This Time (anthology)
White, Orlando, Bone Light
White, Simone, Of Being Dispersed
Williams, Phillip B., Thief in the Interior
Willis-Abdurraqib, Hanif, The Crown Ain't Worth Much
Wong May, Picasso's Tears
Wong, Jane, Overpour
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Y
Yamamoto, Takahiro, Direct Path To Detour
Yamashita, Karen Tei, Letters To Memory
Yang, Gene Luen, American Born Chinese
Youn, Monica, Blackacre
Yu, Timothy, 100 Chinese Silences
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Zan, Bänoo, Songs of Exile
Zaqtan, Ghassan, Like a Straw Bird It Follows Me (transl. by Fady Joudah)
