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Ahead of Banned Book Week, the Rutherford County Board of Education voted to remove six books from public school libraries including Toni Morrison's "Beloved" and "Wicked."
Beloved: Toni Morrison: Themes regarding slavery and violence 1987 45 26 45 Beyond Magenta: Susan Kuklin: Anti-family, offensive language, homosexuality, sex education, political viewpoint, religious viewpoint, unsuited for age group, and other ("wants to remove from collection to ward off complaints") 2014 27 — — Big Hard Sex Criminals
Beloved is the first of three novels about love and African-American history, sometimes called the Beloved Trilogy. [56] Morrison said they are intended to be read together, explaining: "The conceptual connection is the search for the beloved – the part of the self that is you, and loves you, and is always there for you."
It mention's Beloved as a pulitzer prize winner - I was under the impression that Toni Morrisson had received a nobel prize in literature for Beloved. My edition certainly mentions the nobel prize on the cover. Morrison won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993, six years after Beloved was published.
3. “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison. First published in 1970, Morrison’s novel about a Black girl growing up during the Great Depression is a meditation on the oppressive nature of America ...
President Barack Obama honored Morrison with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. Number of times removed — 77 Books removed — "The Bluest Eye," "Beloved," "Song of Solomon," "Sula"
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Today, the target of book censorship may be either a print, electronic, or audiobook, or a curriculum that includes such sources. [ 17 ] [ 6 ] [ 18 ] Targeted texts may be held by a business such as a bookstore; a library, either a public library or one located in a school or university; or the school or university as a whole. [ 19 ]