Arizona's Banned Books List

 

Here's an alphabetical listing of the Arizona banned books list.  It is provided by J. Quinonez-Skinner of the Oviatt Library at CSU Northridge to indicate those books on the list that are proudly possessed by her institution.  It's not difficult to assess the political motivation behind the banning; note how many authors on the list are Latino/Latina and African-American.  Shakespeare, Thoreau, James Baldwin, Isabel Allende, and Sandra Cisneros are included.  Thanks to Gerardo Pacheco for informing me of this list.
See http://library.csun.edu/Guides/arizonabannedbooks/

A

Address to the Commonwealth Club of California (1985) by C. E. Chávez (Not sure if this is the book with the text from the address)

Always Running - La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. (2005) by L. Rodriguez (CSUN)

The Anaya Reader (1995) by R. Anaya (CSUN)

The American Vision (2008) by J. Appleby et el. (Ordered)

500 Años Del Pueblo Chicano/500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures (1990) by E. S. Martínez (CSUN)

At the Afro-Asian Conference in Algeria (1965) by E. Guevara Che Guevara reader http://www.oceanbooks.com.au/static/pdfs/che_guevara_reader_contents. pdf
B

Black Mesa Poems (1989) by J. S. Baca (CSUN)

Bless Me Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya (CSUN)

Borderlands La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1999) by G. Anzaldua (CSUN)

By the Lake of Sleeping Children (1996) by L. A. Urrea (CSUN)
C

Cantos Al Sexto Sol: An Anthology of Aztlanahuac Writing (2003) by C. García-Camarilo et al. (CSUN)

The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child (1999) by F. Jiménez (CSUN)

Civil Disobedience (1993) by H. D. Thoreau (CSUN)

Codex Tamuanchan: On Becoming Human (1998) by R. Rodríguez (CSUN)

Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing up Latino in the United States (1995) by L. Carlson & amp;O. Hijuelos (CSUN)

Crisis in American Institutions (2006) by S. H. Skolnick & E. Currie (CSUN)

Critical Race Theory: An Introduction (2001) by R. Delgado and J. Stefancic (CSUN)

C-Train and Thirteen Mexicans (2002), by J. S. Baca (CSUN)

Curandera (1993) by Carmen Tafolla (CSUN)
D

De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views Multi-Colored Century (1998) by E. S. Martínez (CSUN)

Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology (1990) by H. ZinnTable 21: American History/Mexican American Perspectives, 1, 2 (CSUN)

The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea (CSUN)

Dictionary of Latino Civil Rights History (2006) by F. A. Rosales (CSUN)

A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America (1993) by R. Takaki (CSUN)

"Does Anti-War Have to Be Anti-Racist Too?" (2003) by E. Martínez Article (Online Article via Color Lines)

Drink Cultura: Chicanismo (1992) by J. A. Burciaga (CSUN)

Drown (1997) by J. Díaz (CSUN)
F

Feminism is for Everybody (2000) by bell hooks (CSUN)

The Fire Next Time (1990) by J. Baldwin (CSUN)
H

Healing Earthquakes: Poems (2001) by J. S. Baca (CSUN)

House on Mango Street (1991), by S. Cisneros (CSUN)

I

Immigrants in Our Own Land and Selected Early Poems (1990) by J. S. Baca (CSUN)

Infinite Divisions: An Anthology of Chicana Literature (1993) by T. D. Rebolledo & E. S. Rivero (CSUN)

Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea (Ordered)
J
Justice: A Question of Race (1997) by R. Rodríguez (CSUN)
L

The Latino Condition: A Critical Reader (1998) by R. Delgado and J. Stefancic (CSUN)

Let Their Spirits Dance (2003) by S. Pope Duarte (Ordered)

Like Water for Chocolate (1995) by L. Esquievel (CSUN)

Live from Death Row (1996) by J. Abu-Jamal (CSUN)

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven (1994) by S. Alexie (CSUN)

La Llorona: Our Lady of Deformities (2000), by R. Garcia (Ordered)

Loverboys (2008) by A. Castillo (CSUN)
M

The Magic of Blood (1994) by D. Gilb (CSUN)

The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud, and the Attack on America's Public Schools (1995) by D.C. Berliner and B. J. Biddle (CSUN)

Martin & Meditations on the South Valley (1987) by J. S. Baca (CSUN)

Message to Aztlan: Selected Writings (2001) by Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales (CSUN)

Mexican American Literature (1990) by C. M. Tatum (CSUN)

Mexican White Boy (2008) by M. de la Pena (CSUN)
N

New Chicana/Chicano Writing (1993) by C. M. Tatum (Ordered)

Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life (2002) by L. A. Urrea (CSUN)
O

Occupied America: A History of Chicanos (2004) by R. Acuña (CSUN)

Ocean Power: Poems from the Desert (1995) by O. Zepeda (Ordered)
P

Pedagogy of the Oppressed (2000) by P. Freire (CSUN)

A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (2003) by H. ZinnCourse: English/Latino Literature 7, 8 (CSUN)

A Place to Stand (2002), by J. S. Baca (CSUN)

Puro Teatro: A Latino Anthology (1999) by A. Sandoval-Sanchez & N. Saporta Sternbach (CSUN)
R

Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United States (2005) by L.Carlson & O. Hijuielos (CSUN)

Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years (1998) by B. Bigelow and B. Peterson (Ordered)

S

Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools (1991) by J. Kozol (CSUN)

Saving Our Schools: The Case for Public Education, Saying No to "No Child Left Behind" (2004 )by Goodman et al. (Ordered)

So Far From God (1993) by A. Castillo (CSUN)

Suffer Smoke (2001) by E. Diaz Bjorkquist (CSUN)

T

The Tempest (1994) by W. Shakespeare (CSUN)

Ten Little Indians (2004) by S. Alexie (CSUN)

Los Tucsonenses: The Mexican Community in Tucson, 1854-1941 (1986) by T. Sheridan (CSUN)

Twelve Impossible Things before Breakfast: Stories (1997) by J. Yolen (Ordered)

Two Badges: The Lives of Mona Ruiz (1997) by M. Ruiz (CSUN)

U

United States Government: Democracy in Action (2007) by R. C. Remy (CSUN)

V

Voices of a People's History of the United States (2004) by H. ZinnCourse: English/Latino Literature

5, 6 (CSUN)
W

When Living was a Labor Camp (2000) by D. García (CSUN)

Women Hollering Creek (1992) by S. Cisneros (CSUN)

Woodcuts of Women (2000) by D. Gilb (CSUN)

X

The X in La Raza II (1996) by R. Rodríguez (Ordered)
Y

...y no se lo trago la tierra/And the Earth Did Not Devour Him (1995) by T. Rivera (CSUN)

Yo Soy Joaquin/I Am Joaquin by Rodolfo Gonzales (CSUN)

Z

Zapata's Discipline: Essays (1998) by M. Espada (CSUN)

Zigzagger (2003) by M. Muñoz (CSUN)

Zoot Suit and Other Plays (1992) by L. Valdez (CSUN)

Zorro (2005) by I. Allende (CSUN)