Book bannings on the rise in US schools, says anti-censorship group
The Kids' Right to Read Project investigated 49 book bannings or removals from school shelves in 29 states this year
The Kids' Right to Read Project (KRRP) is part of the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) and says in November alone they dealt with three times the average number of incidents. To date in 2013, KRRP investigated 49 book bannings or removals from shelves in 29 states, a 53% increase in activity from last year. In the last half of the year the project challenged 31 incidents compared to 14 in the same period last year.
Among the books which have been complained about were Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Alice Walker's The Color Purple, Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Isa
bel Allende's The House of the Spirits and Rudolfo Anaya's Bless Me, Ultima.
The KRRP also successfully tackled the proposed banning of The Diary of Anne Frank from schools in Northville, Michigan, where one parent complained that passages detailing Anne's descriptions of her own body were "pornographic", and Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which was branded "anti-Christian". The KRRP and NCAC "went to bat for [this book] more than any other work in 2013, facing challenges in Montana, New York, and two new cases in New Jersey and West Virginia."
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/dec/23/book-bannings-rise-us-censorship
Things are getting pretty F'ing crazy out here!
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