{"id":2694,"date":"2019-09-12T13:56:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T18:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/?page_id=2694"},"modified":"2024-08-15T16:14:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T20:14:44","slug":"the-hate-u-give","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/the-hate-u-give\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books 2024 &#8211; The Hate U Give"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"marsha-row mt-4 mb-4 flex flex-wrap -mx-2 lg:-mx-6  justify-start border-0 border-gray-100 first:mt-0\">\n\t\n<p><!-- *  START LEFT COLUMN  *--><div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-3\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\n<h2>Links<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a id=\"current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2024\/author\/\">2024 Author<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2024\/title\/\">2024 Title<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/\">Banned Books Home<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><hr \/><\/p>\n<h2>Cover<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/files\/2019\/09\/hateugive.jpg\" alt=\"The Hate U Give\" width=\"333\" height=\"499\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2693\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/files\/2019\/09\/hateugive.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/files\/2019\/09\/hateugive-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mulibiiidb.marshall.edu\/record=b1939085~S12\">Drinko Library Juvenile Collection JF T454ha<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- *** ** END LEFT COLUMN ** ***-->\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p><p><!-- *** ** START RIGHT COLUMN ** **--><div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-9\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\n<p><strong>Marshall University does not ban books!  The information is provided to let people know what has been banned\/challenged elsewhere.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>2024<\/h2>\n<p>Collier County Public Schools (FL) removed 88 titles from district libraries because board members feared they had \u201csexual content\u201d prohibited by Florida HB 1069. The district posted a 73-page document to their website listing the \u201cexplicit sexual content\u201d used to justify the bans. This is their rationale for banning <strong>The Hate U Give<\/strong>: \u201cThere\u2019s talk of an affair between two adults. Teens engage in heavy petting, talk about having sex and condoms. A teen girl is described as being on birth control, and there\u2019s discussion of teen pregnancy and the assumption that a married couple is having sex when they go to their bedroom and turn the television up loud. A woman is revealed to be a sex worker.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>2023<\/h2>\n<p>In response to the passage of Missouri S.B. 775, the St. Clair R-XIII School District removed <strong>The Hate U Give<\/strong> from school libraries, fearing potential criminal penalties for school staff.<\/p>\n<p>Parents challenged 5 titles in Shawnee Heights Unified School District 450 (KS) libraries, including <strong>The Hate U Give<\/strong>, <strong>Gender Queer<\/strong>, and <strong>All Boys Aren\u2019t Blue<\/strong>. State senator Rick Kloos publicly stated that he supported efforts to remove <strong>Gender Queer<\/strong> and held a meeting with school superintendent Tim Hallacy to discuss the matter. All five titles were retained<\/p>\n<h2>2022<\/h2>\n<p>Banned and challenged for profanity, violence, and it was thought to promote an anti-police message and indoctrination of a social agenda<\/p>\n<p>After parents announced on Facebook their plans to protest <strong>The Hate U Give<\/strong> at a March North Allegheny High School (PA) school board meeting, a large number of students and parents came out in force to defend the teaching of Thomas\u2019s acclaimed novel. At the beginning of the unit in which Thomas\u2019s novel was taught, parents received communication regarding the novel\u2019s themes, situations, and language, as well as the school\u2019s \u201ccommitment to addressing the content of the book in a professional and appropriate way.\u201d  Families had the option to opt out and read another book, but none did so, according to Brandi Smith, the public relations and communications specialist for the district. Student Lamees Subeir observed that there are \u201cvery few issues about Black struggle in the curriculum outside of slavery.\u201d  \u201cPlease do not remove this book from the curriculum because it might be sensitive,\u201d Subeir urged the board. \u201cSensitive just means that people do not want to talk about it.\u201d  Another student, Avery Neely, argued that the book illustrates the urban\/suburban divide, as its narrator lives in a poor and predominantly Black neighborhood, but attends a mostly White suburban preparatory school. \u201cWhat is the role of an educator if not to make sense of the world for the students?\u201d Neely asked. Parent Melinda Weddes said that the novel \u201copens the door to conversations about racism,\u201d adding that, \u201cIt is important in a predominantly White district to educate students about racism.\u201d  North Allegheny students also defended the book in their online student newspaper, <strong>The Uproar<\/strong>, where Sam Podnar stated, \u201cI know that the complaints were officially about drug use and language, but I think that it is the underlying discomfort with the ideas of police brutality and racism discussed in the book.\u201d  Zo\u00eb Tracey said, \u201cThe resistance [to the book] is so clearly a reflection of the inability of our community to acknowledge the unsettling situations Black Americans go through.\u201d  None of the parents who indicated they would protest the book at the meeting did so. In fact, no one attending the meeting spoke out against the book. <strong>The Hate U Give<\/strong> remains part of the North Allegheny High School\u2019s 9th grade curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>Parents in the Edgerton (MN) Public School District objected to the inclusion of <strong>The Hate U Give<\/strong> in the freshman curriculum, citing concerns over profanity, sexual situations, drinking, and drugs. The curriculum committee voted to retain the title. However, the superintendent tabled the decision until all board members read it. The board then voted 5\u20130 to remove it from the freshman curriculum citing profanity and its omission of the police officer\u2019s viewpoint.<\/p>\n<p>Parents of students at the Putnam Valley (NY) Central School District objected to \u201cCritical Race Theory\u201d and an alleged \u201canti-cop\u201d bias in this title after it appeared on the district\u2019s ninth grade optional summer reading list. The book was retained.<\/p>\n<h2>2021<\/h2>\n<p>Challenged for profanity, and it was thought to promote an anti-police message.<\/p>\n<h2>2019<\/h2>\n<p>This award-winning bestselling YA fiction title about the shooting of a young, unarmed black man by a white police officer was challenged at a Springfield (MO) middle school. The original complaint was about the lack of specificity in permission slips, as well as language and sexual situations. The school district pulled the book to review it, a new permission slip was sent out, further complains were made, and the book was pulled again. Its final status is unknown. The Fraternal Order of Police chapter in the South Carolina town of Mount Pleasant sought to have <b>The Hate U Give<\/b> removed from the Wando High School&#8217;s list of optional reading assignments for incoming high school freshmen, along with <b>All American Boys<\/b> by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely. The FOP chapter said the books are &#8220;almost an indoctrination of distrust of police and we&#8217;ve got to put a stop to that.&#8221; Both books deal with the issue of police brutality. Following a request for reconsideration process, the school decided to retain both title on the list..<\/p>\n<h2>2018<\/h2>\n<p>After a parent&#8217;s public complaint at a school board meeting, the superintendent of Katy (TX) Independent School District removed the multiple award-winning book from all the school libraries in the district. Teachers and librarians argued against the censorship, which produced overwhelming media uproar. A Katy ISD student circulated a petition gathering over 3,700 signatures to urge reinstatement of the book. The Superintendent held firm in his claim that the book was pervasively vulgar and he was legally right to censor the book. Three months later the critically acclaimed novel about a black teen dealing with the aftermath of witnessing a police shooting that killed her unarmed friend was returned to the district&#8217;s high school libraries, available to students only with parental consent.<\/p>\n<h2>On These Pages<\/h2>\n<p>A <strong>Banned<\/strong> book has been removed from a library, classroom, etc.<br \/>\nA <strong>Challenged<\/strong> book has been requested to be removed from a library, classroom, etc.<\/p>\n<h2>For additional information contact<\/h2>\n<p>Ron Titus, <a href=\"mailto:titus@marshall.edu\">titus@marshall.edu<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"tel:304-696-6575\">304-696-6575<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Last updated<\/h2>\n<p>August 15, 2024<\/p>\n<p><!-- ** ** END RIGHT COLUMN *** *-->\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<p><!-- *** * END FULL PAGE DIV * *** --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"parent":2039,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2694","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2694"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14589,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2694\/revisions\/14589"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}