Books on race, gender pulled from schools amid conservative push against 'radical' literature
Attempts by conservative activists to regulate how schools discuss race, sexuality and gender has contributed to an ongoing effort to remove books seen as controversial from school curricula and libraries.
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Attempts by conservative activists to regulate how schools discuss race, sexuality and gender have contributed to an ongoing effort to remove books seen as controversial from school curricula and libraries.
The most recent high-profile example was Art Spiegelman’s award-winning “Maus,” a graphic novel that depicts the horrors of the Holocaust, being removed from a Tennessee eighth-grade language arts curriculum. The McMinn County School Board voted 10-0 to remove Spiegelman’s book on Jan. 10, but the story began to circulate Wednesday after a report from the Tennessee Holler. According to the minutes from the meeting, the use of curse words and “nakedness” were the impetus for the change.
Really???? THis is going WAYYYY overboard. Two of the books were written by black ladies! Might as well have a big bonfire to "save the children" from reading such awful books, but what the hell...let them watch two lesbos or two guys get it on. *huge eye roll*
The Tennessee decision followed news of a Missouri school board voting 4-3 to ban “The Bluest Eye,” a novel by the Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, which depicts the struggles of a young Black girl dealing with racism. Due to its passages referencing incest and child rape, the book is a regular on the American Library Association’s annual lists of most challenged books.
