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Book bans & censorship /

Is there such a thing as forbidden knowledge? Are some ideas too dangerous for members of a society to handle? This is the idea behind book banning and censorship, methods meant to create a degree of social control by restricting access to ideas or art or other kinds of expression. Recently, America...

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Bibliographic Details
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amenia, New York : Grey House Publishing, [2024].
Series:Reference shelf ; v. 96, no. 4.
Subjects:
Prohibited books > United States.
Challenged books > United States.
School libraries > Censorship > United States.
Libraries > Censorship > United States.
Prohibited books.
Challenged books.
Libraries > Censorship.
Table of Contents:
  • Understanding censorship
  • Challenging information
  • "What is book banning? And what isn't?" / Ken Paulson, Free Speech Center at Middle Tennessee State University, April 29, 2024
  • "'Don't say gay' rules and book bans might have felt familiar in medieval Europe" / Jessica Hines, The Conversation, May 16, 2024
  • "What you need to know about the book bans sweeping the U.S." / Morgan Gilbard, Teachers College at Columbia University, September 2023
  • "Manuscripts don't burn: a timeline of literary censorship" / Dan Sheehan and Lisa Tolin, PEN America, July 13, 2023
  • "Politics and school libraries: what shapes students' access to controversial content" / Kirsten Slungaard Mumma, Brookings Institution, February 14, 2023
  • A new era of censorship
  • Censorship in the 2020s
  • "Here's the long list of topics Republicans want banned from the classroom" / Sara Schwartz and Eesha Pandharkar, Education Week, February 2, 2022
  • "After national backlash, Florida lawmakers eye changes to book restrictions" / Andrew Atterbury, Politico, January 19, 2024
  • "New report: book bans spike by 33% over last school year" / PEN America, September 21, 2023
  • "Who's behind the escalating push to ban books? A new report has answers" / Eesha Pendharkar, Education Week, September 28, 2022
  • Controversial ideas
  • Race and gender in book bans
  • "Narratives about critical race theory and Americans' belief about public schools" / Ariell Bertrand, Melissa Arnold Lyon, and Rebecca Jacobsen, Brookings Institution, January 25, 2024
  • "Efforts to ban critical race theory have been put forth in all but one state--and many threaten schools with a loss of funds" / Taifha Natalie Alexander, The Conversation, April 7, 2023
  • "Now the most challenged and banned book, Gender Queer was written to give teenagers the guidance that author Maia Kobabe never had" / PEN America, May 3, 2023
  • "Killing the Indians in 2023: book banning seeks to erase Native Americans--opinion" / Debbie Reese, School Library Journal, October 25, 2023
  • Censorship and the law
  • The legal debate
  • "Congress introduces New Bill to Fight Book Bans in Schools" / Andrew Albanese, Publisher's Weekly, December 6, 2023
  • "State laws are behind many book bans, even indirectly, report finds" / Eesha Pendharkar, Education Week, May 19, 2023
  • "Illinois set to become first state to end book bans" / Shia Kapos, Politico, May 3, 2023
  • "Penguin Random House, PEN America, authors and parents sue Florida county for removing books on race and LGBTQ themes" / Sarah Mokrzycki, The Conversation, May 19, 2023
  • "Anti-censorship legislation: a flawed attempt to address a legitimate problem" / Daveed Ross-Gartenstein, Madison Urban, and Cody Wilson, Lawfare, July 27, 2022
  • Education and activism
  • Librarians and students react to book banning
  • "How teachers can stay true to history without breaking new laws that restrict what they can teach about racism" / W. Fitzhugh Brundage, The Conversation, June 2, 2023
  • "'Are you there, God?' reminds us why books are still banned, even in the digital age" / Joanna Weiss, Politico, April 29, 2023
  • "How school libraries buy books, struggle for funds, and confront book bans: an explainer" / Mark Lieberman, Education Week, February 27, 2023
  • "Anti-CRT bills are aimed to incite the GOP base--not parents" / William H. Frey, Brookings Institution, May 30, 2022
  • "How teens benefit from being able to read 'disturbing' books that some want to ban" / Gay Ivey, The Conversation, February 29, 2024
  • "Book bans and the librarians who won't be hushed" / Elaine McArdle, Harvard Graduate School of Education, November 6, 2023.