Book Bans

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• SOURCE: Texas Tribune
  5/17/2022
  

  Texas Librarians Face Harassment as they Navigate Book Bans

  While some librarians in the state have been fired for refusing to comply with bans, many others have or are contemplating quitting over political interference with their work and social media harassment. 

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• SOURCE: Texas Monthly
  4/1/2022
  

  The Texas School District Considering Banning "Maus" Needs to Reconsider

  "Before reading Maus, if I had a sense of what Nazis were, it was as abstract villains, the bad guys Indiana Jones fought."

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg
  3/30/2022
  

  Nikole Hannah-Jones: Book Bans "Inevitable Backlash" to 2020 Protest Wave

  The journalist cited historian Timothy Snyder's argument that authoritarianism relies on restricting national understanding of civic identity in ways that serve existing power. 

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• SOURCE: CBS News
  2/22/2022
  

  Poll: Clear Majority Rejects Book Bans

  Polling shows Americans reject banning books that address racism and believe in the value of difficult lessons. 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  2/10/2022
  

  How Will K-12 Book Bans Impact Higher Ed?

  Social media are enabling like-minded parents to network and amplify calls to remove books from schools and libraries. Experts argue that parents' success will fail children's intellectual development and college readiness. 

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• SOURCE: Black Enterprise
  2/2/2022
  

  Black Parents' Group Fights Texas Book Bans

  "The determined mothers of the Texas-based Round Rock Black Parents Association are speaking out against the multiple attempts of book bans in their kids’ schools."

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• SOURCE: BBC
  1/27/2022
  

  Tennessee School Board Bans Holocaust Graphic Memoir "Maus"

  Author Art Spiegelman called the decision "Orwellian" and suggested young people would be deprived of knowledge.