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In her Washington Post analysis, Valerie Strauss contextualized the bans in the history of book censorship in the United States, dating back to charges of blasphemy in 1650 against William Pynchon's The Meritorious Price on Our Redemption, and spanning The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and the Harry Potter books, which were the most ...
Book censorship is the removal, suppression, or restricted circulation of literary, artistic, or educational material on the grounds that it is objectionable according to the standards applied by the censor. [ 1] The first instance of book censorship in what is now known as the United States, took place in 1637 in modern-day Quincy ...
Book censorship is the act of some authority taking measures to suppress ideas and information within a book. Censorship is "the regulation of free speech and other forms of entrenched authority". [1] Censors typically identify as either a concerned parent, community members who react to a text without reading, or local or national ...
The message behind a specific book’s banning can also have a lasting impact on students, teachers, schools, and communities as a whole. “When the government bans a book, it sends a clear ...
February 1, 2022 at 2:16 PM. In schools across the country, hundreds of books are being targeted in a wave of attempted censorship that experts say has no precedent in the 21st century. According ...
THE INDEPENDENT’S BANNED BOOKS WEEK: ‘Looking For Alaska’, Green’s 2005 debut, has been a target of book banning efforts for at least 15 years. Clémence Michallon speaks to the author ...
Banned Books Week is an annual awareness campaign promoted by the American Library Association and Amnesty International, that celebrates the freedom to read, [ 1] draws attention to banned and challenged books, [ 2] and highlights persecuted individuals. Held in late September or early October since 1982, the United States campaign "stresses ...
The sheer number of banned books makes it nearly impossible for a “Maus”-like breakout. There were more than 1,400 book bans in Florida alone last school year, as PEN America reported.