Efforts to ban books have gathered enough backing this past year, where hundreds of titles cut across thousands of schools. These schools include those who often tackle ‘culture wars’ issues like gender, sexuality, and race, a study shows. As per the report published by the anti-censorship group PEN America, in the school year 2021-2022, there were 2,532 instances of individual book bans that affected 1,648 titles at around 5,000 schools with 4 million students. Significant bans were seen in Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, South Carolina, Wisconsin, and Georgia Frequently banned titles include Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe and The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, which was inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement and was turned into a 2018 movie.
Study Shows Effects Of Queer Book Bans As 1650 Titles Pulled In More Than 5000 Schools
- Scott Galvin
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