{"id":16038,"date":"2015-01-24T14:12:27","date_gmt":"2015-01-24T21:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=16038"},"modified":"2022-10-11T11:21:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T18:21:23","slug":"you-cant-read-that-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=16038","title":{"rendered":"You Can&#8217;t Read That!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You Can&#8217;t Read That! is a periodic post featuring banned book reviews and news.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a title=\"book by Paul Woodford, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halfmind\/15737355263\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8631\/15737355263_350903685a.jpg\" alt=\"book\" width=\"500\" height=\"348\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hacked traffic sign in Los Angeles (photo credit: unknown)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>YCRT! updates from Tucson, Arizona, where 80 textbooks, along with the entire Mexican-American Studies program, were <a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=8697\">banned from local high schools in 2012<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The House on Mango Street<\/em> goes to trial: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/tonydiaz\/the-house-on-mango-street-goes-to-trial_b_6391022.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maya vrs. Arizona<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Tucson schools superintendent defies Arizona law by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latinpost.com\/articles\/31234\/20150109\/tucson-arizona-superintendent-risking-14m-mexican-american-african-programs-despite.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reintroducing banned Mexican-American and African-American studies and textbooks<\/a><\/li>\n<li>More on the <a href=\"http:\/\/threesonorans.com\/2015\/01\/20\/banned-books-finally-returning-culturally-relevant-classes-tusd-despite-recent-state-threat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reintroduction of banned textbooks<\/a> in Tucson schools<\/li>\n<li>Ousted Arizona superintendent of public education John Huppenthal, the man who imposed the 2012 ban, says Tucson schools, in reintroducing banned books and ethnic studies programs, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/01\/05\/arizona-hip-hop-illegal_n_6419558.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">illegally promote ethnic solidarity and the overthrow of the U.S. government<\/a> by teaching Mexican history, Rage Against the Machine lyrics and an explanation of hip hop by rapper KRS-One.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>YCRT! updates from Dallas, Texas, where we&#8217;ve been following an ongoing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/community-news\/park-cities\/headlines\/20140921-highland-park-isd-suspends-seven-books-after-parents-protest-their-content.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">battle over books<\/a> assigned to students at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.nytimes.com\/2014\/11\/30\/us\/end-of-schools-book-ban-doesnt-mark-the-last-chapter.html?referrer&amp;_r=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Highland Park High School<\/a> (this is the school district where the superintendent at one time advocated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/community-news\/park-cities\/headlines\/20141114-highland-park-isd-says-six-books-will-require-parental-permission.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">red-flagging any book appearing on the American Library Association&#8217;s banned book list<\/a>):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Conservative media rejoicing over the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/texas\/2015\/01\/22\/battle-over-books-reignites-in-texas-high-school\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resumption of parental challenges to Highland Park High School books<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Highland Park officials kick the can down the road, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/community-news\/park-cities\/headlines\/20150120-highland-park-isd-board-delays-changes-to-book-policy.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">delay a decision<\/a> on implementing the\u00a0new book review policy they devised after\u00a0the last round of parental challenges<\/li>\n<li>Parents challenge the teaching of\u00a0<em>The Working Poor: Invisible in America<\/em>, want to replace it in Highland Park classrooms with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wonkette.com\/573494\/rich-texas-parents-reading-ayn-rand-in-school-will-fix-all-the-poverty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the novels of Ayn Rand<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>YCRT! banned book &amp; censorship news:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can help the American Library Association by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oif.ala.org\/oif\/?p=5318\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">forwarding news of book challenges and banning attempts<\/a> in your communities<\/li>\n<li><em>The Guardian<\/em> tries to justify <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2015\/jan\/15\/books-pigs-global-publishing-oxford-university-press-children\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">piggish self-censorship<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The European Union responds to the Charlie Hebdo killings\u00a0by <a href=\"https:\/\/gigaom.com\/2015\/01\/11\/eu-response-to-free-speech-killings-more-internet-censorship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">imposing new\u00a0restrictions on freedom of speech<\/a><\/li>\n<li>This is why our kids <a href=\"http:\/\/christiannews.net\/2015\/01\/18\/bibles-banned-on-religious-freedom-day-over-satanists-seeking-to-pass-out-coloring-books\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">can&#8217;t have nice Bibles<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/01\/16\/art-censorship_n_6465010.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">brief history of art censorship from 1508 to 2014<\/a>\u00a0(NSFW)<\/li>\n<li>A growing and worrisome problem: the <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2015\/01\/22\/censorship-at-the-highest-ranks-of-the-u-s-military-and-the-growing-divide-between-the-military-and-civilians\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">censorship imposed on\u00a0military members<\/a> and government employees<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You Can&#8217;t Read That! is a periodic post featuring banned book reviews and news. YCRT! updates from Tucson, Arizona, where 80 textbooks, along with the entire Mexican-American Studies program, were banned from local high schools in 2012: The House on Mango Street goes to trial: Maya vrs. Arizona Tucson schools superintendent defies Arizona law by\u00a0reintroducing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1964,48,1083],"class_list":["post-16038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banned-books","tag-banned-books","tag-censorship","tag-challenged-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16038"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31934,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16038\/revisions\/31934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}