2021īanned and challenged for profanity, sexual references, and allegations of sexual misconduct by the author. The list of more than 30 titles included The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes, Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher, Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin, Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Dear Martin by Nic Stone, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Beloved by Toni Morrison, The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander, Pink Is for Boys by Robb Pearlman, and Harbor Me by Jacqueline Woodson. The Protect Nebraska Children Coalition brought an extensive list of books to the Wauneta-Pallisade (NE) Public Schools board meeting and wanted the books removed from both the elementary and high school libraries. It is unclear whether letters by students and teachers supporting the book will have any influence on whether the book is allowed to be used in the classroom in the future. A middle school English teacher resigned over the district’s handling of the situation. But the school district administration has said its priority is protecting students, and that schools should be sensitive to the historic marginalization of students of color. Defenders of the book, including English teachers and faculty department chairs, students, and the board of the Hasting-on-Hudson Public Library, decried what they called censorship of the book. The Hastings-on-Hudson (NY) School District halted lessons after they received complaints from an African-American student and classmates when an eighth-grade teacher read a passage from The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian that included a character’s racist joke featuring the N-word. 2022īanned and challenged for profanity, sexual references, and use of a derogatory term.

Marshall University does not ban books! The information is provided to let people know what has been banned/challenged elsewhere.

The absolutely true diary of an indian