Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez

A brief cover of the author and the banned book leads us to Jason meeting Kyle and Nelson at a meeting.

Banned

• #48 on Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009

• 2004 - Texas - Along with fifteen other books with gay-positive themes this book was challenged in the Montgomery County Memorial Library System by Library Patrons of Texas using language similar to language of the website Parents Against Bad Books in Schools based out of Fairfax County, Virginia.

• 2005 - Arkansas - Along with fifty other books, a challenge at the Fayetteville High School library cited this book and others were too sexually explicit and promoted homosexuality

• 2006 - New York - After receiving complaints from parents about explicit sexual content, the book was removed from Webster Central School District high school summer reading list yet reinstated a year later after officials reviewed the selection process.

Sources

ALA. "Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009." Retrieved on 17 Aug 19 from http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/top-100-bannedchallenged-books-2000-2009

Doyle, Robert P. Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read. ALA. 2014.

Sanchez, Alex. Rainbow Boys. Simon Pulse. New York, 2003.

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Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller's play examines the American Dream at its heart: the family. We talk about the author then why the play is banned and get into it a little.

Banned

• 1974 - Texas - Challenged at the Dallas Independent School District high school libraries

• 1981 - Indiana - Spring Valley Community High School English in French Lick banned the play from English classes for using the words "goddamn," "son of a bitch," and "bastard."

• 1987 - Kentucky - Pulaski County High School in Sinking Valley challenged it as "junk" from a required reading assignment

• 1997 - Illinois - Egyptian High School in Tamms challenged but retained the play as offensive because of "profanity."

Sources

Doyle, Robert P. Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read. ALA. 2014.

Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman. Viking Press. New York, 1949.

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A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

World War I Italy has a woman, cheese, alcohol, and bombs. An American ambulance driver romances, eats, drinks, and blows up.

Banned

• 1929 - Massachusetts - June 1929 issue of Scribner's magazine labeled as pornography in Boston despite sex being omitted from text as a literary device

  • Italy - banned for its accurate account of the Italian retreat from Caporetto

• 1933 - Germany - burned by the Nazi government

• 1939 - Ireland

• 1974 - Texas - Dallas Independent School District high school libraries faced challenges

• 1980 - New York - Challenged at the Vernon-Verona-Sherill School district as a "sex novel"

• Banned in Italy by the fascist government until 1948 for above (possibly due to an interview Hemingway had with Mussolini in 1923 for the Toronto Star full of scorn, calling the Italian government "the biggest bluff in Europe.")

  • In 1943, Fernanda Pivano translated the work to Italian and was arrested for the work being "anti-Italian"

Sources

Doyle, Robert P. Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read. ALA. 2014.

Hemingway, Ernest. Farewell to Arms. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1929.

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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451

By Ray Bradbury

It was a pleasure to burn through this book and explain that people are dummies for banning a book on book banning.

Banned

1967 - Ballantine Books released the "Bal-Hi Edition" aimed at high school students which censored such words as "hell" and "damn" and "drunk man" became a "sick man."

1987 - Florida - The book was given "third tier" status under a homegrown book classification system at Bay County Schools in Panama City meaning it contained "vulgarity." After much controversy, the school abandoned the tier system and the book was placed in the curriculum.

1992 - California - Irvine school Venado Middle School censored after students received copies with words such as "hell" and "damn". Parents complained and reporters contacted the school so officials said the censored copies would not be used

2006 - Texas - Challenged at Conroe Independent School District for "discussion of being drunk, smoking cigarettes, violence, 'dirty talk,' reference to the Bible, and using God's name in vain," going against "religious beliefs."

Sources

ALA. "Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009." Retrieved on 17 Aug 01 from http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/top-100-bannedchallenged-books-2000-2009

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. Ballantine Books. New York, 1953.

Doyle, Robert P. Banned Books: Challenging Our Freedom to Read. ALA. 2014.

Library of Congress. "Books That Shaped America." Retrieved on April 16, 2019 from https://www.loc.gov/bookfest/books-that-shaped-america/

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