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Panich52

(5,829 posts) Thu Apr 23, 2015, 01:42 PM Apr 2015

Whose Books Are Banned? (Racism?)

Natl Coalition Against Censorship

Whose Books Are Banned?
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http://ncac.org/blog/whose-books-are-banned/The ALA's new list of most frequently banned or challenged books raises an important question: Why are books by people of color most likely to make the list?

http://ncac.org/blog/whose-books-are-banned/

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Whose Books Are Banned? (Racism?) (Original Post) Panich52 Apr 2015 OP

Weird, cant be, this is post racial Obama NoJusticeNoPeace Apr 2015 #1

Many, many, many authors books are banned by the big publishers. Trillo Apr 2015 #2

NoJusticeNoPeace

(5,018 posts)

1. Weird, cant be, this is post racial Obama

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Thu Apr 23, 2015, 01:49 PM

Apr 2015

Trillo

(9,154 posts)

2. Many, many, many authors books are banned by the big publishers.

Reply to Panich52 (Original post)

Thu Apr 23, 2015, 02:09 PM

Apr 2015

Don't let anyone else tell you differently. If they do, they're lying.

This post might be construed as off topic of big publisher's books getting banned by local school libraries. Perhaps its a form of balancing.

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