Friday, September 25, 2009
Reading Out the Banned.
Lila is hosting a Banned Books Week Reading. Although ours will not feature the vocal stylings of famous authors and actors, some of your professors, librarians, and peers will be sharing passages from their favorite banned, censored, challenged books. Join us for convo credit on Monday, September 28th at 2pm!
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There is a cool Google map of books banned or challenged from 2007 to 2009.
http://bannedbooksweek.org/Mapofbookcensorship.html
Did you see the WSJ article ("Finding Censorship Where There Is None") on BBW? It mentions the map and is a pretty interesting read.
Parents who demand the removal of books are not trying to control what their children read: they are trying to control what OTHER children read. A disapproving parent can simply tell his/her child they cannot read that particular book (and thus increase its allure!). But demanding a book's removal from the shelf means they are making a decision about the reading material of everyone's children. The rest of the piece is a shoddy tu quoque argument (no surprise it was published in Murdoch's WSJ).
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