Banned books

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Banned books

by Ted Rudow III,MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )

Monday May 7th, 2012 

A banned book is one that has been removed from the shelves of a library, bookstore, or classroom because of its controversial content. In some cases, banned books of the past have been burned and/or refused publication. Possession of banned books has at times been regarded as an act of treason or heresy, which was punishable by death, torture, prison time, or other acts of retribution. They have banned books today for less offenses along those lines than the Bible. They're just circling around and circling around like this, circling around and getting all the other books.



They got rid of Mexican-American studies in the state of Arizona. They put all of the books that they took away from the students, they boxed them and put them away. The catch-22 seems to be that anybody who's not from that ethnic studies world could teach it but that there would be disciplinary action as I understand it if anyone complains about those being taught. So in essence they've been, what I call a soft-banning. They're out of the picture.

Chicano, the History of the Mexican Civil Rights Movement, boxed. Critical Race Theory by Delgado and Stefancic, boxed. Five Hundred Years of Chicano History in Pictures, boxed. Message to Aztlan, boxed. Occupied America, boxed. Rethinking Columbus, the Next 500 Years, boxed. Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire, boxed. And then Howard Zinn’s, A People's History of the United States? The Tempest- William Shakespeare's because it deals with race--It's anti-colonial.

1984 again!

Ted Rudow III, MA