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Edition 14 (1993)

Literary awardMulticultural literatureNo genre restrictions (novels, poetry, non-fiction, etc.)

Winners

13 people

A study of African American and Caribbean artists in Paris, tracing exchange, exhibition, and cultural networks.

64 pages
art historycultural exchangeBlack culture

Investigative nonfiction about wealth, generosity, and the tension between money and commitments to peace, justice, and the environment.

182 pages
nonfictionsocial issueseconomy
Cornel West Winner

A philosophical and political essay collection on prophetic thinking, public life, and the limits of Eurocentrism and multiculturalism.

205 pages
philosophycultural criticismpolitics

A novel set in West Virginia coal country, where labor struggle, family, and the pull of nature shape the characters’ lives.

367 pages
novellaborenvironment
Diane Glancy Winner

An essay collection that reflects on Native identity, memory, and the struggle to claim voice and presence.

119 pages
essaysNative American identitycultural memory

A selected-poems collection that combines lyric intensity with social observation and a Black poetic imagination.

181 pages
poetryurban lifevisual imagery

A poetry collection rooted in Nahuatl imagery, symbolic language, and the reclamation of Indigenous and Latino heritage.

162 pages
poetryLatino culturesymbolism
Gerald Graff Winner

An essay collection that treats the culture wars not as a dead end but as a resource for teaching, arguing that conflict can become a force for intellectual renewal.

Turning conflict itself into intellectual energy.

224 pages
educationculture warshigher education

A sweeping biography that follows James Michael Curley while tracing the larger world of Boston politics, machine power, and immigrant social change.

A single politician’s life opens onto the full landscape of urban politics.

581 pages
biographyurban politicshistory

A poetry collection that traces family, memory, and belonging through brief lyric movements, letting Chicano experience emerge from ordinary scenes.

Home and memory are joined through quiet lyric fragments.

85 pages
poetryfamilymemory

A bilingual life story and cultural record of life in the Chandalar country, preserving Gwich’in memory and experience.

130 pages
ethnographyregional studieslife writing
Nelson George Winner

A cultural history of Black men and basketball that uses sport to examine race, class, and American society.

261 pages
sports cultureracesocial history

A satirical novel set in the Philippines that uses family drama and political intrigue to explore dictatorship, history, and gender.

270 pages
novelPhilippinessocial criticism