The book I'm skimming through right now has several chapters: "A Survey of Major Bookbanning Incidents," "The Law on Bookbanning," Voices of Banned Authors,"and "Banned Books in the '90s." The survey chapter is definitely interesting. The first incident is about a school district in West Virginia where a book challenging incident became so heated that there was a boycott of the school district and a plot to bomb cars by a fundamentalist group. Wow! So book banning can get pretty heated. That's interesting.
I started going through the IUPUI databases looking for censorship + school libraries. Got way too many results. Decided to narrow results to this decade. Down to 100! Not bad. I'm definitely starting to find a focus here. So should I say I'm feeling optimistic? =)
Joshua
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