After months of absence from the Pinellas County district library in Florida, “The Bluest Eye” is available for checkout. It seems like I’m writing about attempts to restrict or remove access to books just about every month, writes biblioracle.
Palm Harbor University High senior Hannah Hipolito speaks in February against the banning of"The Bluest Eye" during a Pinellas School Board meeting in the Tampa, Florida area, while the audience waves its hands in support. A district committee revisited the ban on April 18, 2023.
showing that the number of individual book bans across the country increased by 28% over the past six months, compared with the previous six months.One of those books was Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye,” first published in 1970, and frequently challenged in schools, ostensibly because of its portrayal of sexual assault and incest, but as has been increasingly clear lately, primarily because it is a novel that confronts the reality of white supremacy through the eyes of a Black girl.
It is not accidental that this happened in Florida. The state legislature under the urging of Gov. Ron DeSantis has created mechanisms for parents to throw a monkey wrench into a system serving thousands of students by challenging books on topics like race, sex, gender, diversity and equity, and other so-called divisive content.
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