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Edition 18 (1997)

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

Winners

14 people

A Chicano poetry collection that intertwines cultural memory, political anger, and identity.

poetryChicano cultureidentity

A study of Black religious and cultural life that treats gospel music as a strategy of survival.

240 pages
religious culturemusicBlack history

A poetry collection that finds wonder and unease in everyday urban life while tracing loneliness and fragile hope.

86 pages
poetryurban lifeeveryday life

A hybrid performance text of poems, prophecies, and border talk that treats migration and cultural conflict as live art.

244 pages
cultural theoryperformanceborders
Louis Owens Winner

A novel rooted in Native life and place, using mystery and landscape to explore identity and belonging.

217 pages
novelIndigenous peopleshistory

A politically charged poetry collection about labor, oppression, solidarity, and the longing for justice.

108 pages
poetrypolitics労働

A historical novel set in northern Mexico on the eve of revolution, marked by family rupture, land, and violence.

349 pages
novel幻想象徴
Noel Ignatiev Winner

A provocative essay collection that attacks race as a social construct and argues for radical abolition of whiteness.

304 pages
人種論criticismpolitics

A memoir of migration and homecoming that traces a Malaysian girl's journey into Asian American womanhood.

248 pages
memoirimmigrationculture
Sunaina Maira Winner

An anthology that maps South Asian American experience through fiction, essays, poetry, and photography.

242 pages
immigration南アジア系アメリカcultural studies
Thulani Davis Winner

A novel about art, grief, and murder in New York's art world, built around friendship and obsession.

256 pages
novel宗教伝記要素
Tom De Haven Winner

A historical novel set in the Great Depression that follows comic-strip culture, ambition, and corruption.

290 pages
historical fiction大恐慌社会

A scholarly study of Black public life that asks what responsibility intellectuals bear in American society.

335 pages
思想史人種公共知
Brenda Knight Winner

An anthology and critical portrait of women who shaped the Beat era, restoring their influence to the movement's history.

366 pages
文化史女性史ビート世代