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SOURCE: CNN
6/4/2022
Authors of Color Disproportionately Targeted by Book Bans
Angry parents yelling at school board meetings present a picture of these authors' work that they find unrecognizable. Read what several targeted authors say about their books.
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6/5/2022
Regimes Around the World are Manipulating History and Threatening Historians
by Ruben Zeeman
Official attempts to hinder bona fide historical research and debate through legislation or other means, are the first signals that history is at risk of abuse – such efforts abroad are also a warning to historians in America.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
4/17/2022
The Next Front of the Culture War? Your Public Library
"Conservative activists in several states, including Texas, Montana and Louisiana have joined forces with like-minded officials to dissolve libraries’ governing bodies, rewrite or delete censorship protections, and remove books outside of official challenge procedures."
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SOURCE: Reuters
4/7/2022
PEN Report: More than 1,000 Books Banned in US
PEN found that 86 school districts had removed 1,145 titles from their shelves over the last nine months, some permanently and others while an investigation was under way.
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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: TomDispatch
2/17/2022
My Life With Maus
by Tom Engelhardt
Although the aftermath of the Tennessee "Maus" controversy involved a flood of donated copies sent to the local community and the book's return to the bestseller charts, the revival of book-banning sentiments bodes ill for the course of the nation.
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SOURCE: Vulture
2/14/2022
Art Spiegelman Interviewed on Maus, Art and History, and his Missing Glasses
The graphic memoirist says that the Tennessee controversy probably doesn't reflect any antisemitic bigotry, but a desire to find a catharsis that fixes the horror of the Holocaust instead of recognizing it as ongoing.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
2/2/2022
Book Bans Target Teaching the History of Oppression
by Marilisa Jiménez Garcia
Children, particularly those who are part of minority groups, have never been spared from horrors, in history or today. The rhetoric of book-banners is rooted in a privileged viewpoint and serves the interests of inequality today.
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SOURCE: NBC News
2/1/2022
Books on Race, Sexuality Disappearing from Texas School Shelves
In a sample of 100 Texas school districts, 75 formal requests to remove books from libraries were filed between September and December (only one was filed in those districts a year before). But some students are fighting back.
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SOURCE: Minneapolis Star-Tribune
1/31/2021
Now Conservatives are the "Discomfort Police"
by Jeffrey Aaron Snyder
The left should not be surprised to see the right weaponizing the concept of discomfort to justify a spate of legislation restricting the teaching of difficult historical subjects around race and historical conflict.
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SOURCE: Substack
1/27/2022
Maus in Tennessee
by Jeet Heer
The stated objections to Maus – profanity, nudity, filial disrespect, violence – are impossible to separate from the fact that the book is a graphic history of the Holocaust.
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SOURCE: PEN America
12/13/2021
Scope, Speed of Educational Gag Order Laws Increasing Nationwide
by Jeffrey Sachs
Under the South Carolina bill, racism, fascism, and homophobia can all be understood as cultural or political beliefs. Educators would be prohibited from describing those who hold such beliefs as bigoted or oppressive.
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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: TIME
11/16/2021
‘We’re Preparing For a Long Battle.’ Librarians Grapple With Conservatives’ Latest Efforts to Ban Books
by Olivia B. Waxman
“We’re seeing an unprecedented volume of challenges,” says Deborah Caldwell-Stone, Executive Director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. “I’ve worked for ALA for 20 years, and I can’t recall a time when we had multiple challenges coming in on a daily basis.”
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
10/15/2021
Books Briefing: Fights Over What Kids Read Continue
More than half of the books banned from or challenged in school libraries and classrooms deal with issues of diversity including race, gender and disability.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
9/13/2021
Has BYU Canceled a Leading Historian of Mormonism?
The Neal A. Maxwell Institute appears to be disavowing its previous connections to historian Benjamin Park. Is it because of his objections to some LDS leaders' positions on LGBTQ issues and masking and vaccination in response to COVID?
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
8/27/2021
EBay Deletes the Queer Past
The online auction company's decision may make it difficult for historians of LGBTQ cultures and of sexuality to build archives of historically signicant erotica.
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SOURCE: Forbes
8/6/2021
Filmmaker Greg Mitchell on the Government's Suppression of Scientists' Film about A-Bombs
"I’ve always wanted to promote an honest debate about what happened. I want all of the facts out there. I want Americans to have conversations and examine moral issues."
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
7/28/2021
Before the Anti-CRT Activists, there were White Citizens’ Councils
by David A. Love
"Employing the techniques of the White Citizens’ Council, a 21st-century White resistance movement threatens to turn back the clock on civil rights and racial justice and create a new future built on erasing the past."
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