Jose Antonio Burciaga collection, Houston Baker book among American Book Award winners

Burciaga anthology among American Book Awards

NEW YORK — A critical work on black intellectuals and an anthology of the late Chicano poet Jose Antonio Burciaga are among this year’s winners of American Book Awards.

The awards, now in their 30th year, are given for outstanding work of multicultural literature and are sponsored by the nonprofit educational organization, the Before Columbus Foundation.

Recipients announced Tuesday included Houston A. Baker’s “Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era,” ”The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes: Selected Works of Jose Antonio Burciaga” and Claire Hope Cummings’ “Uncertain Peril: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Seeds.”