{"id":6974,"date":"2021-03-30T12:41:59","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T17:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/?page_id=6974"},"modified":"2022-09-28T10:33:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T14:33:55","slug":"color-purple","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/color-purple\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books 2022 &#8211; The Color Purple"},"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-2022\/author\/\">2022 Author<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2022\/title\/\">2022 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\/2021\/03\/colorpurple.jpg\" alt=\"the color purple cover\" width=\"1400\" height=\"2003\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2679\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mulibiiidb.marshall.edu\/record=b1042743~S12\">Held at Marshall University ( Drinko General Collection &#8211; PS3573.A425 C6 1982)<\/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>2022<\/h2>\n<p>The Protect Nebraska Children Coalition brought an extensive list of books to the Wauneta-Pallisade (NE) Public Schools board meeting and wanted the books removed from both the elementary and high school libraries. The list of more than 30 titles included <strong>The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian<\/strong> by Sherman Alexie, <strong>Ghost Boys<\/strong> by Jewell Parker Rhodes, <strong>Thirteen Reasons Why<\/strong> by Jay Asher, <strong>Go Tell It on the Mountain<\/strong> by James Baldwin, <strong>Speak<\/strong> by Laurie Halse Anderson, <strong>Dear Martin<\/strong> by Nic Stone, <strong>The Color Purple<\/strong> by Alice Walker, <strong>The Kite Runner<\/strong> by Khaled Hosseini, <strong>Beloved<\/strong> by Toni Morrison, <strong>The Undefeated<\/strong> by Kwame Alexander, <strong>Pink Is for Boys<\/strong> by Robb Pearlman, and <strong>Harbor Me<\/strong> by Jacqueline Woodson. The books were removed for evaluation.<\/p>\n<h2>2014<\/h2>\n<p>Challenged, but retained as a Brunswick County (NC) Advanced Placement English eleventh-grade assignment. Language and sexuality or &#8220;obscenity&#8221; were most often cited as the reason for the majority of the unofficial complaints and criticisms, as was whether or not the book, a Pulitzer Prize winner that deals with issues of racism, violence against women, and rape, has literary value that was age appropriate for the students.<\/p>\n<h2>2010<\/h2>\n<p>Challenged and or banned for offensive language, being sexually explicit and unsuited to age group<\/p>\n<h2>2009<\/h2>\n<p>Challenged in Burke County schools in Morgantown (NC) by parents concerned about the homosexuality, rape, and incest portrayed in the book<\/p>\n<h2>2008<\/h2>\n<p>Banned for sexually explicit and offensive language and homosexuality.<\/p>\n<h2>2003<\/h2>\n<p>Challenged in Fairfax (VA) school libraries by a group called Parents Against Bad Books in Schools for &#8220;profanity and descriptions of drug abuse, sexually explicit conduct and torture&#8221;.<\/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>September 28, 2022<\/p>\n<p><!-- ** ** END RIGHT COLUMN *** *-->\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<p><!-- *** * END FULL PAGE DIV * blocked in the processing de*** --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":784,"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-6974","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6974","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\/784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6974"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12358,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6974\/revisions\/12358"}],"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=6974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}