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In August 2005 in Littleton, Colorado, the Littleton school board voted to ban The Bluest Eye from reading lists, where it was listed as optional, and removed from the libraries of the Heritage and Arapahoe high schools, despite the recommendation of a committee that the book be restricted to juniors and seniors. The ban was enacted in response ...
Author Toni Morrison’s book “The Bluest Eye” won’t be found in libraries in the Wentzville School District after the school board voted Thursday 4-3 to remove the book.
A Missouri school district joins a growing list of districts across the country to ban books highlighting issues of race, sexuality, and the Holocaust. Missouri school district bans Toni Morrison ...
In 2021, the Wentzville School Board in Missouri banned All Boys Aren't Blue, alongside three other books, from the district's high school libraries. Other books included in the ban were Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye, Kiese Laymon’s Heavy: An American Memoir, and Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home. [31]
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The Bluest Eye: Toni Morrison: Themes of racism, incest and child sexual abuse 1970 10 15 34 Bone (series) Jeff Smith: References to smoking, drinking and gambling: 1991–2004 16 — — The Boy Who Lost His Face: Louis Sachar: Themes of the occult, sexuality and bullying; profanity: 1989 — 92 46 Boys and Sex: Wardell Pomeroy: Sexual ...
"The Inverted World of Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Sula." CLA Journal 22.4 (June 1979): 402-414. Rpt. in Novels for Students. Ed. Diane Telgen. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Literature Resource Center. Web. 11 November 2016. Hicks, Mark. "Northville Schools Reconsider 'Bluest Eye' - Many Parents Deemed the Novel's Content Inappropriate ...
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