Banned Books

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  12/8/2021
  

  10 Books Texas Doesn't Want You to Read

  "The subjectivity involved in defining inappropriate, obscene, or distressing—and the danger of politicizing such definitions—is at the center of Krause’s challenge, and it shows in the books on his ban list."

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• SOURCE: Mississippi Free Press
  11/15/2021
  

  The Hate They Censor: Burying Lessons of History

  The editor of the Mississippi Free Press compares today's national wave of book banning to the efforts to control information that established the "Lost Cause" narrative in early 20th century Mississippi. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/28/2021
  

  Banning "Beloved" Won't Help Protect Kids, But it Will Help Sanitize Racism

  by Farah Jasmine Griffin

  It's worthwhile to consider Morrison's characterization of censoring Huck Finn as a “purist and yet elementary kind of censorship designed to appease adults rather than educate children.”

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/6/2021
  

  The Fight to Ban Books

  "Pennsylvania does not have a law banning critical race theory from schools, at least not yet. In states where Republican governors have signed legislation banning critical race theory, books are disappearing from shelves."