Minority Authors Banned Books List

Banned books by minority authors 1990 - 2000

Sep 27, 2006 Leslie Poston

Over the years books wirtten by minority authors have repeatedly fallen under the axe. Here is a compilation of the most banned books by minority authors for 1999-2000

Over the years books wirtten by minority authors have repeatedly fallen under the axe. It is only recently that we have tried to track down discrimination and censorship in this form.

Part of the fight against discrimination and censorship is tracking instances where it has happened so that we can learn from this and keep it from happening in the future.

According to the Office for Intellectual Freedom and the ALA, the following were the most challenged and banned books by minority authors for the years 1999 through 2000:

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou

(racism, homosexuality, sexually explicit, offensive language)

The Color Purple, Alice Walker

(sexually explicit, offensive language, violence)

Fallen Angels, Walter Dean Myers

Reason for challenges: racism, offensive language, violence

Kaffir Boy, Mark Mathabane

(homosexuality, sexually explicit)

The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison

(challenges: sexually explicit, offensive language)

Beloved, Toni Morrison

(sexually explicit, violence)

The House of Spirits, Isabel Allende

(sexually explicit, offensive language)

Native Son, Richard Wright

(sexually explicit, offensive language, violence)

Bless Me, Ultima, Rudolfo A. Anaya

(sexually explicit, offensive language, occult)

Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison

(racism, sexually explicit, offensive language)

Always Running, Luis Rodriguez

(sexually explicit, offensive language)

Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry, Mildred D. Taylor

(offensive language)

American Indian Myths and Legends, Richard Erdoes and Alfonso Ortiz

(sexually explicit)

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