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Post by maddogblues on Feb 19, 2011 14:04:28 GMT -5
www.alternet.org/story/149924/america%27s_book_banners_are_back_in_force?akid=6550.118075.j2oyGW&rd=1&t=21This is an interesting article on the topic of Americans who want certain books kept out of schools. "On the website Parents Against Bad Books In Schools, some of the works deemed “sensitive, inappropriate and controversial” for K-12 students, even those who are college-bound or in advanced placement classes, include Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses, Richard Wright’s Black Boy, Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried and Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude."I can imagine why uptight book banners would not like Richard Wright. He was a black man with an attitude in a white dominate culture. I don't know about the other ones.
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