{"id":483,"date":"2022-09-20T10:50:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T14:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ihsl\/?p=483"},"modified":"2022-09-20T10:52:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T14:52:01","slug":"books-unite-us-censorship-divides-us-banned-books-week-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ihsl\/2022\/09\/20\/books-unite-us-censorship-divides-us-banned-books-week-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Books Unite Us, Censorship Divides Us: Banned Books Week 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FireSeptember 18 – 24 is Banned Books Week<\/strong><\/a>, which “celebrates the freedom to read and spotlights current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools.” For over 40 years, Banned Books Week has brought people together in “shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular.”<\/p>\n

Banned Books Week is both a reminder of the unifying power of stories and the divisiveness of censorship, and a call to action for readers across the country to push back against censorship attempts in their communities.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Below is a sampling of books available in our library collection that have been challenged or banned in the United States. Click on the book title<\/strong> to be taken to the eBook.<\/p>\n

To learn more about books that have been challenged or banned, visit “Frequently Challenged Books<\/a>” page from the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom<\/p>\n

\"FunFun Home <\/em><\/a>Alison Bechdel<\/p>\n

\"Alice'sAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland <\/em><\/a>by Lewis\u00a0Carroll<\/p>\n

\"Of
\nOf Mice and Men <\/em><\/a>by John Steinbeck<\/p>\n

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\"MeMe and Earl and the Dying Girl: a Novel<\/em><\/a> by Jesse Andrews<\/p>\n

\"BetweenBetween the World and Me: Notes on the First 150 Years in America<\/em><\/a> by Ta-Nehisi Coates<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"PedagogyPedagogy of the Oppressed<\/em><\/a> by Paulo Freire<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Call of the Wild<\/em><\/a> by Jack London<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Great Gatsby<\/em><\/a> by F. Scott Fitzgerald<\/p>\n

\"WhiteWhite Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism<\/a><\/em> by Robin DiAngelo<\/p>\n

\"TheThe immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks<\/em><\/a> by Rebecca Skloot<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Autobiography of Malcolm X<\/em><\/a> with the assistance of Alex Haley<\/p>\n

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September 18 – 24 is Banned Books Week, which “celebrates the freedom to read and spotlights current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools.” For over 40 years, Banned Books Week has brought people together in “shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox … Continue reading “Books Unite Us, Censorship Divides Us: Banned Books Week 2022”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4241,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ihsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ihsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ihsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ihsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ihsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ihsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ihsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ihsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ihsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/ihsl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}