Question: Can both Robert Hayden and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni be classed as members of American minorities?

Context articles: Mera Naseeb
Sister of My Heart
Mistress of Spices
Stout Bushmaster 2000
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Mistress of Spices
Robert Hayden
One Amazing Thing
The Palace of Illusions: A Novel
The Conch Bearer

Mera Naseeb (Urdu: , English: My Fate‎ ) is a Hum TV drama which aired from 1 April 2011 to 26 August 2011.
 The drama featured a huge ensemble star cast including Samina Peerzada, Sakina Samoo, Rubina Ashraf, Bushra Ansari, Shagufta Ejaz, Durdana Butt, Sajid Hassan, Adeel Hussain, Imran Abbas, Imran Aslam, Syra Yousuf, Sanam Saeed, Rehan Sheikh, Ali Afzal and Sabahat Bukhari.
 Indian-American author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni has accused the writers of the show of plagiarizing her novel "Sister of My Heart" for the story of the serial.
 She has also threatened to take legal action against the writers of the show.
 However the screenplay writer had mentioned earlier before the show's original run that it is a drama adaptation of a story provided to them.
 Only recently it was mentioned the screenplay writers had no prior knowledge a plagiarized work was being provided to them to work with.
Sister of My Heart is a novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.
 First published in 1999, this novel was followed in 2002 by a sequel "The Vine of Desire".
The Mistress of Spices, (1997), set in contemporary Oakland, California, is a novel by Indian American writer and University of Houston Creative Writing Program professor Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.
The Bushmaster 2000 was a small commuter airliner built in the United States in an attempt to revive the Ford Trimotor design.
 Work began in 1953 by testing a vintage Trimotor and in 1954 Bill Stout purchased the design rights to the original Trimotor.
 Due to "Ford Tri-Motor" licensing problems, the Ford 15-AT-D was given the Bushmaster 2000 name.
 On 15 January 1955, Stout and partner Robert Hayden from the Hayden Aircraft Corporation announced they were planning to build 1,000 new Bushmasters, but it would be eleven years before the first prototype of the new design flew.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (born Chitralekha Banerjee, July 29, 1956) is an Indian-American author, poet, and the Betty and Gene McDavid Professor of Writing at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program.
The Mistress of Spices is a 2005 film by Paul Mayeda Berges, with a screenplay by Gurinder Chadha and Berges.
 It is based upon the novel "Mistress of Spices" by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.
 The film stars Aishwarya Rai.
 The soundtrack was created by Craig Pruess, who also contributed to the "Bend It Like Beckham" soundtrack.
Robert Hayden (4 August 1913 – 25 February 1980) was an American poet, essayist, and educator.
 He served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1976–78, a role today known as US Poet Laureate.
 He was the first African-American writer to hold the office.
One Amazing Thing is a 2010 novel by award-winning novelist and poet Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.
 It was first published in the United States in Voice by Hyperion 2009 and later published in Hamish Hamilton by Penguin Books India 2010.
The Palace of Illusions is a 2008 novel by award-winning novelist and poet Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.
 It was released by Picador.
The Conch Bearer is a fantasy novel written by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.