Texas alone has banned 801 across 22 districts.
Over the past year, PEN America documentedfacing censorship challenges in across the US, with Texas leading the charge thanks to 801 bans across 22 districts. In total, almost 4 million students nationwide have seen books removed from their school library shelves, the majority of which feature LGBTQ+ or BIPOC authors and subject matter.
“Many Americans may conceive of challenges to books in schools in terms of reactive parents, or those simply concerned after thumbing through a paperback in their child’s knapsack or hearing a surprising question about a novel raised by their child at the dinner table,” writes the report’s authors,
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