{"id":8728,"date":"2021-09-09T10:45:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T15:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/?page_id=8728"},"modified":"2022-04-19T09:30:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T13:30:02","slug":"great-gatsby","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/great-gatsby\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books 2021 &#8211; The Great Gatsby"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"\">\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 style=\"\"><a id=\"current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2021\/author\/\">2021 Author<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2021\/title\/\">2021 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\/09\/great-gatsby.jpg\" alt=\"the great gatsby cover\" width=\"1400\" height=\"2003\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2679\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mulibiiidb.marshall.edu\/record=b1344435~S12\">Held at Marshall Libraries (Drinko Library &#8211; PS3511.I9 G7 1996).<\/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>2021<\/h2>\n<p>The Matanuska-Susitna (Mat-Su) Borough School District School Board in Palmer, Alaska, voted 5\u20132 to remove five books identified as controversial from the school curriculum: <strong>The Things They Carried<\/strong>, <strong>I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings<\/strong>, <strong>Catch-22<\/strong>, <strong>Invisible Man<\/strong>, and <strong>The Great Gatsby<\/strong>. The board also voted to remove the New York Times Learning Network as a teacher resource. The concern cited by the board members was sexual content that could cause controversy. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings was also challenged for \u201canti-white messaging\u201d; one board member claimed that it could generate an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit. The Office for Intellectual Freedom \u2014 joined by Alaska librarians, the Freedom to Read Foundation, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, and the American Booksellers for Free Expression\u2014sent a letter to the Mat-Su school board urging them to return the books to the curriculum. After the community protested the board\u2019s vote, it rescinded its decision and the books remain available in the schools.<\/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 9, 2021<\/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-8728","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8728","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=8728"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9778,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8728\/revisions\/9778"}],"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=8728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}