Chronology of multicultural literature in the U.S.

1903: WEB Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (African American).
1925: Alain Locke, The New Negro. Beginning of the Harlem Renaissance (African American).

1934: John Joseph Matthews, Sundown (Native American) and Henry Roth, Call It Sleep (Jewish American).
1935: Judgement Day Studs Lonigan trilogy concludes James T. Farrell (Irish American).
1939: Pietro Di Donato, Christ in Concrete (Italian American).
1943: Jerre Mangione, Mount Allegro (Italian American).
1945: Josephina Niggli, Mexican Village (Mexican American).
1949: Mari Tomasi, Like Lesser Gods (Italian American).
1953: The National Book Award is presented to Ralph Ellison Invisible Man (African American).
1957: John Okada, No-No Boy (Japanese American).
1961: Jesús Colón publishes A Puerto Rican in New York and Other skits, marking the beginning of the Nuyorican Movement (Puerto Rican American).

1965: Mario Puzo, The Fortunate Pilgrim (Italian American), the Black Arts Repertory Theatre / School in Harlem was founded by Amiri Baraka.
1967: Founding of the publisher Quinto Sol (Mexican American).
1969: N. Scott Momaday won the Pulitzer Prize for House Made of Dawn (Native American), marking according to the critic Kenneth Lincoln beginning of the Native American Renaissance. "
1969: Philip Roth, Portnoy's Complaint (Jewish American).
1971: Frank Chin, Chickencoop Chinamen (Chinese American).
1972: Publication of Asian American Authors, the first anthology on this theme; Rudolfo Anaya,Bless Me, Ultima (Mexican American), Jose Montoya, El Sol y Los De Abajo RCAF and Other Poems (Mexican American).
1973: Bilingual Review Press have created (Latin American), The Asian American Theater Company is based in San Francisco, Miguel algarine creates the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York (Puerto Rican American).  
1974: Publication of Aiiieeeee!. An Anthology of Asian American Writers, published by David Hsin-fu Wand (ed.), Asian American Heritage.
1975: Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide (African American).
1976: Gary Soto, The Elements of San Joaquin (Mexican American), Bernice Zamora, Restless Serpents (Mexican American).
1977: Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony (Native American), Gerald Vizenor, Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart (Native American).
1978: Janice Mirikitani, Awake in the River (Japanese American).
1979: Launch of Arte Público magazine (Latin American) Helen Barolin, Umbertina (Italian American).
1981: IB Nadel, Jewish Writers of North America; Lorna Dee Cervantes, Emplumada (Mexican American).
1982: Richard Rodriguez, Hunger of Memory (Mexican American).
1983: William Kennedy, Ironweed (Irish American).
1984: Louis Erdrich, Love Medicine (Native American).
1985: Creation of the literary magazine Wíčazo Ša Review (Native American), The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writings by Italian-American Women.
1987: Toni Morrison, Beloved (African American).
1988: Hisaye Yamamoto, Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories (Japanese American), Ella Deloria, Waterlily (Native American).
1989: Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club (Chinese American), Maxine Hong Kingston, Tripmaster Monkey (Chinese American).
1992: Ray González, After Aztlan: Latino Poets of the Nineties (Latin American).
1995: Ginu Kamani, Junglee Girl (American Indian).
1996: Suheir Hammad, Born Palestinian, Born Black (Palestinian American).
1997: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Mistress of Spices (Indian American).
1998: Beau Sia, A Night Without Armor II (Chinese American).
2003: Tina De Rosa, Paper Fish (Italian American).
2006: Mohja Kahf: The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf (Syrian American).