Banned Book List

This is a list of the books that are currently "not banned" but also not allowed in classrooms of the Tucson Unified School District in Arizona.  Please note, that even though, a majority of the books banned are written by Xican@ authors and address Xican@ identity and culture, this list also contains authors who are not of Xican@ heritage. The general theme here is: banning books that educate people on ethnicity and oppression.

1. Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years (1998), by B. Bigelow and B. Peterson
2. The Latino Condition: A Critical Reader (1998), by R. Delgado and J. Stefancic
3. Critical Race Theory: An Introduction (2001), by R. Delgado and J. Stefancic
4. Pedagogy of the Oppressed (2000), by P. Freire
5. United States Government: Democracy in Action (2007), by R. C. Remy
6. Dictionary of Latino Civil Rights History (2006), by F. A. Rosales
7. Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology (1990), by H. Zinn
8. American History/Mexican American Perspectives, 1, 2 – Texts and Reading Lists
9. Occupied America: A History of Chicanos (2004), by R. Acuna
10. The Anaya Reader (1995), by R. Anaya
11. The American Vision (2008), by J. Appleby et el.
12. Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years (1998), by B. Bigelow and B. Peterson
13. Drink Cultura: Chicanismo (1992), by J. A. Burciaga
14. Message to Aztlan: Selected Writings (1997), by C. Jiminez
15. De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views Multi-Colored Century (1998), by E. S. Martinez
16. 500 Anos Del Pueblo Chicano/500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures (1990), by E. S. Martinez
17. Codex Tamuanchan: On Becoming Human (1998), by R. Rodriguez
18. The X in La Raza II (1996), by R. Rodriguez
19. A People’s History of the United States: 1492 to Present (2003), by H. Zinn
20. Ten Little Indians (2004), by S. Alexie
21. The Fire Next Time (1990), by J. Baldwin
22. Loverboys (2008), by A. Castillo
23. Women Hollering Creek (1992), by S. Cisneros
24. Mexican WhiteBoy (2008), by M. de la Pena
25. Drown (1997), by J. Diaz
26. Woodcuts of Women (2000), by D. Gilb
27. At the Afro-Asian Conference in Algeria (1965), by E. Guevara
28. Color Lines: “Does Anti-War Have to Be Anti-Racist Too?” (2003), by E. Martinez
29. Culture Clash: Life, Death and Revolutionary Comedy (1998), by R. Montoya et al.
30. Let Their Spirits Dance (2003) by S. Pope Duarte
31. Two Badges: The Lives of Mona Ruiz (1997), by M. Ruiz
32. The Tempest (1994), by W. Shakespeare
33. A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America (1993), by R. Takaki
34. The Devil’s Highway (2004), by L. A. Urrea
35. Puro Teatro: A Latino Anthology (1999), by A. Sandoval-Sanchez & N. Saporta Sternbach
36. Twelve Impossible Things before Breakfast: Stories (1997), by J. Yolen
37. Voices of a People’s History of the United States (2004), by H. Zinn
38. Live from Death Row (1996), by J. Abu-Jamal
39. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven (1994), by S. Alexie
40. Zorro (2005), by I. Allende
41. Borderlands La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1999), by G. Anzaldua
42. A Place to Stand (2002), by J. S. Baca
43. C-Train and Thirteen Mexicans (2002), by J. S. Baca
44. Healing Earthquakes: Poems (2001), by J. S. Baca
45. Immigrants in Our Own Land and Selected Early Poems (1990), by J. S. Baca
46. Black Mesa Poems (1989), by J. S. Baca
47. Martin & Meditations on the South Valley (1987), by J. S. Baca
48. The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud, and the Attack on America’s Public Schools (19950, by D. C. Berliner and B. J. Biddle
49. Red Hot Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Being Young and Latino in the United States (2005), by L. Carlson & O. Hijuielos
50. Cool Salsa: Bilingual Poems on Growing up Latino in the United States (1995), by L. Carlson & O. Hijuielos
51. So Far From God (1993), by A. Castillo
52. Address to the Commonwealth Club of California (1985), by C. E. Chavez
53. House on Mango Street (1991), by S. Cisneros
54. Suffer Smoke (2001), by E. Diaz Bjorkquist 
55. Zapata's Disciple: Essays (1998), by M. Espada
56. Like Water for Chocolate (1995), by L. Esquievel
57. When Living was a Labor Camp (2000), by D. Garcia
58. La Llorona: Our Lady of Deformities (2000), by R. Garcia
59. Cantos Al Sexto Sol: An Anthology of Aztlahuac Writing (2003), by C. Garcia-Camarillo, et al.
60. The Magic of Blood (1994), by D. Gilb
61. Saving Our Schools: The Case for Public Education, Saying No to “No Child Left Behind” (2004) by Goodman, et al.
62. Feminism is for Everybody (2000), by b hooks
63. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child (1999), by F. Jimenez
64. Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools (1991), by J. Kozol
65. Zigzagger (2003), by M. Munoz
66. Infinite Divisions: An Anthology of Chicana Literature (1993), by T. D. Rebolledo & E. S. Rivero
67. …y no se lo trago la tierra/And the Earth Did Not Devour Him (1995), by T. Rivera
68. Always Running – La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. (2005), by L. Rodriguez
69. Justice: A Question of Race (1997), by R. Rodriguez
70. The X in La Raza II (1996), by R. Rodriguez
71. Crisis in American Institutions (2006), by S. H. Skolnick & E. Currie
72. Los Tucsonenses: The Mexican Community in Tucson, 1854-1941 (1986), by T. Sheridan
73. Curandera (1993), by Carmen Tafolla
74. Mexican American Literature (1990), by C. M. Tatum
75. New Chicana/Chicano Writing (1993), by C. M. Tatum
76. Civil Disobedience (1993), by H. D. Thoreau
77. By the Lake of Sleeping Children (1996), by L. A. Urrea
78. Nobody’s Son: Notes from an American Life (2002), by L. A. Urrea
79. Zoot Suit and Other Plays (1992), by L. Valdez
80. Ocean Power: Poems from the Desert (1995), by O. Zepeda

*Source: http://www.scribd.com/doc/58025928/TUSD-ethnic-studies-audit