The books don't come out and say, 'We want White children to feel like oppressors,' but that is absolutely what they will do.'Īnother parent, Omerly Sanchez, told KKTV her elementary school-aged son loved the book. 'They are pointed at White children displaying microaggressions to children of color. 'It is inappropriate instructional material,' Bonnie Anderson, a former candidate for the Katy Independent School Board, told CBS affiliate KKTV in October about the book. But parents in Katy, Texas successfully stopped an October appearance by Craft, and had 'New Kid' temporarily removed from the school 'by simply saying it represented critical race theory,' she said. Jerry Craft's 'New Kid,' a book about an African American boy going to a new school that is majority White, 'is not in any way racist or critical race theory,' and has won literary awards, Stone said. Under Texas' new law banning critical race theory in the classroom, teachers cannot discuss the idea that 'one race or sex is inherently superior to another race or sex.' Most of the books on the 2020 list - the most recent available - are challenged, banned or restricted due to alleged 'LGBTQIA+ content,' 'anti-police messages,' themes of race, 'divisive language' and 'sexually explicit language,' according to the ALA. 'Beloved' by Toni Morrison is not the only book that has been challenged in some communities as the debate over education again heats up.

It is not the only book of Morrison's, a Black woman, to be challenged in some communities - and as the debate over education again heats up, books have become a flashpoint around the U.S.Ī wide variety of books have been challenged or banned for a wide variety of reasons, according to the American Library Association, which keeps a running list of the most challenged books in libraries and schools.

Last month, Glenn Youngkin, Virginia's Republican governor-elect, targeted Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' in a campaign ad that featured a parent upset that the 1987 novel was taught to her son when he was a high school senior.

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