censorship

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  1/24/2023
  

  College Faculty: After K-12, Curriculum Laws are Coming For You

  by James Grossman and Jeremy C. Young

  State colleges involved with concurrent enrollment programs that allow high school students to take classes for credit are already susceptible to laws purporting to fight "indoctrination" in the secondary school curriculum. More intrusions on academic freedom are coming. 

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• SOURCE: Tampa Bay Times
  1/20/2023
  

  National AAUP Condemns Florida University Presidents' Pledge to Root out Critical Race Theory

  "The national organization, founded in 1915, stated it was 'appalled at the blatant violation of academic freedom' and said it was exploring options, including an investigation and possible censure."

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• 1/15/2023
  

  50 Years Ago, "Anti-Woke" Crusaders Came for My Grandfather

  by Max Jacobs

  In 1972, "Search for Freedom" was rejected for adoption in Texas classrooms after conservative activists launched a national media campaign to attack it as unamerican and corrupting. The author's grandfather wrote the book. 

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• SOURCE: Firstcoast News
  1/4/2022
  

  Jacksonville Schools Consider Rejecting Book on Hank Aaron for Elementary Schools

  Does the story of the discrimination Aaron experienced as a teenaged minor-leaguer in Florida run afoul of the state's "Individual Freedom Act"? 

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• SOURCE: Salon
  12/30/2022
  

  I'm a History Professor with 139 Followers. Why Did Elon Ban Me From Twitter?

  by Kenneth Osgood

  (It was because I called him a "bologna face".)

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• SOURCE: Politico
  10/24/2022
  

  MAGA Mom Activists Heavily Represented on DeSantis Book Review Panel

  Both transparency and expertise seem to have been ignored in the selection of conservative activists to staff a Florida panel implementing new restrictions on school libraries and in-classroom reading materials. 

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  10/15/2022
  

  The Nation's Most Prolific Censor – So Far

  by Adam Hochshild

  Operating out of the same building that would later house the Trump International Hotel, Postmaster General Albert Burleson used control of the mails to crush countless publishers deemed subversive. Most of his legal tools are still on the books today. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  10/17/2022
  

  Book Bans Today Recall 1950s Panic over Comic Books

  by Jeremy C. Young and Jonathan Friedman

  Child psychologist Fredric Wortham had fough Jim Crow by theorizing the damage caused to Black children by segregation. He had a less likely role in supporting the idea that lurid plots in comic books would create a generation of emotionally damaged adults. 

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• SOURCE: Texas Tribune
  9/19/2022
  

  Texas Leading the Nation in Book Banning

  Not suprisingly, books dealing with racism and LGBTQ themes are being targeted for removal from library and school shelves, even preventing them from being read voluntarily. 

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• 9/25/2022
  

  Around the World, Censorship of Historians is Tied to Attacks on Democracy

  by Ruben Zeeman

  Teachers and researchers of history are under attack – sometimes literally – by regimes who seek to make history a foundational element of their legitimacy and authority.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  9/20/2022
  

  Book Bans Reflect Outdated Views on How Children Read

  by Trisha Tucker

  Research shows that children are not vessels into which books pour ideas, but co-creators of meaning as they read and process a book. Yet today's moral panic imagines books breaking down barriers between innocent childhood and a corrupt world. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/16/2022
  

  American Library Association: Book Bans Accelerating

  “It represents an escalation, and we’re truly fearful that at some point we will see a librarian arrested for providing constitutionally protected books on disfavored topics,” said Deborah Caldwell-Stone, the director of the office of intellectual freedom at the library association.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/12/2022
  

  Today's Book Bans Might be Most Dangerous Yet

  by Jonna Perrillo

  Today's book banners have broadened their attention from communist themes in textbooks and are attacking young adult literature titles that students are choosing to read, a much more significant intrusion on freedom of thought. 

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• SOURCE: Miami Herald
  9/12/2022
  

  Cuban-American Playwright Censored by Miami-Dade Schools—Is it over "Don't Say Gay"?

  Columnist Fabiola Santiago argues that the censorship of the Cuban-American writer's plays by local schools shows that Cuban Americans can't expect the state's escalating culture wars to leave them alone. 

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• SOURCE: PEN America
  8/17/2022
  

  PEN America: The Nation's Censored Classrooms

  by Jeremy C. Young and Jonathan Friedman

  "The restrictions and chilling effects of gag order laws threaten to destroy the climate of open inquiry required in free and democratic educational institutions."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/17/2022
  

  States Curtailing Students' Access to Books, Ideas

  In many states, school librarians will be less free to recommend books, and students less free to explore them, with potentially serious consequences for educational quality and personal and intellectual growth, experts argue. 

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• SOURCE: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
  8/16/2022
  

  Texas District Removes Graphic Version of Diary of Anne Frank

  “It’s disgusting. It’s devastating. It’s legitimate book banning, there’s no way around it,” Laney Hawes, a parent of four children in the Keller district, told JTA about the order. “I feel bad for the teachers and the librarians.”

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/9/2022
  

  Fighting Back Against Book Banners

  by Margaret Sullivan

  Attempts to ban books from public libraries are a threat to democratic culture and should alarm all Americans, argues Post columnist Margaret Sullivan. 

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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.