Over 1,000 books were banned in schools in the past year, with bans disproportionately targeting books on race and the LGBTQ community.
Republican-led efforts to ban books from school librariesPEN America condemned the bans, noting an “alarming spike in censorship” that is “unparalleled in its intensity and frequency and represents a serious threat to free expression and students’ First Amendment rights.”86 school districts had banned books, representing 2,899 schools with more than 2 million enrolled students.
State by state, Texas had the most school book bans , followed by Pennsylvania , Florida , Oklahoma , Kansas and Tennessee .247 banned books addressed race or racism directly.42 banned books were children’s books, including the biographies of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., Ruby Bridges, Cesar Chavez, Sonia Sotomayor, Nelson Mandela and Malala Yousafzai.
Friedman noted that recent school book bans most often targeted books about racial and LGBTQ identities, and challenges to books by nonwhite male authors are “at the highest rates we’ve ever seen.” “We are witnessing the erasure of topics that only recently represented progress toward inclusion,” he said.. In a report out today,"Banned in the USA," we analyze the SPATE of book bans in schools in past 9 months. 🧵/1
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