Book Banning in 21st-Century America
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 5 February 2026
- ISBN 9781538195062
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages264 pages
- Size 232x160x20 mm
- Weight 520 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 5 bw illus 685
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Short description:
Based on 25 contemporary book challenge cases in schools and public libraries across the United States, this book argues that understanding contemporary reading practices, especially interpretive strategies, is vital to understanding why people attempt to censor books in public institutions.
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With book banning increasing around America, this book breaks down how and why contemporary reading practices can lead to censorship.
Requests for the redaction, removal, relocation, and restriction of books - also known as challenges - have markedly increased in the 2020s. Book Banning in 21st-Century America examines 25 contemporary cases of book challenges in schools and public libraries across the United States, demonstrating the significance of contemporary reading practices, especially interpretive strategies, in understanding why some attempt to censor books in public institutions.
What does it mean to read a text? How do readers construct their own ideas about what constitutes ""appropriate"" reading materials? This book focuses on the why of censorship and posits that many censorship behaviors and practices, such as challenging books and targeting public libraries and schools, are intimately tied to the challenger's understanding of the practice of reading and its effects on character development and behavior. It discusses reading as an evolving social practice that encompasses different physical modalities and interpretive strategies.
Table of Contents:
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Unprecedented
Chapter 2: Power and Knowledge
Chapter 3: Truth, Justice, & An American Library
Chapter 4: Perfect Timing
Chapter 5: A Nation Wars Against Its Own People
Chapter 6: Inappropriate Institutions and Organizations
Chapter 7: Reading Should Edify the Soul
Chapter 8: Fear, Knowledge, and Power
Appendix A
Appendix B
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
