'...According to PEN America, of the number of books challenged last year, 40% have been books that feature main characters of color. Of that number, 41% of the books that have been challenged also feature LGBTQIA themes or characters.'
to share radical books with incarcerated folks. Since its launch, the club has grown massively and sends over 1100 books monthly to incarcerated members. Every so often, books are returned to their LA headquarters for inconsistent reasons. Regulation is deliberately confusing because prisons “are places that operate without accountability, and with no real oversight” says Sage.
Over in our education and library systems, district or county specific oversight lends itself to similar challenges. PEN America reports at least 138 individual districts with book bans, a number that continues to grow. Inside the classroom, the use of diverse texts by marginalized authors has been met with pushback in some. Lifelong educator and teacher-librarian Julia E. Torres says this is because culturally responsive pedagogy is offensive to the status quo.
“Racism is innovative,” says Natosha Daniels. “We need to be innovative also.” Natosha and Tiffanie Harrison are former Round Rock ISD classroom educators and two members of the Round Rock Black Parents’ Association leadership team. The organization successfully fought for the inclusion of Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds’in classrooms.
Our students’ interests are being watched by people who think they need to be protected from reality and truth. It should be noted in most cases where laws targeting critical race theory and books that speak to race and racism are not concerned with the way children of color experience racism but rather how white students will be made to feel about themselves learning about instances of atrocities people of color have faced in history.
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