{"id":8976,"date":"2021-09-15T11:23:40","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T16:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/?page_id=8976"},"modified":"2021-10-27T14:31:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T18:31:35","slug":"montana-1948","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/montana-1948\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books 2021 &#8211; Montana 1948"},"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=\"margin-bottom: 0px\"><a id=\"current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2021\/author\/\">2021 Author<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom: 0px\"><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\/Montana1948.jpg\" alt=\"montana 1948 book cover\" width=\"351\" height=\"499\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2605\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mulibiiidb.marshall.edu\/record=b1850758~S12\">Held at Marshall University (Ebook)<\/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>Administrators in the Henry Sibley High School in Mendota Heights (MN) have \u201cpaused\u201d teaching two novels after community complaints about the books: <strong>Of Mice and Men<\/strong> was challenged for its use of the N-word, and <strong>Montana 1948<\/strong> was challenged because of \u201cconcerns about the content . . . from our American Indian community.\u201d  In Montana 1948, the protagonist\u2019s uncle sexually assaults, and later murders, the family\u2019s Sioux housekeeper. These challenges against the use of racist language prompted the district to seek out and adopt protocols for challenging instructional materials.<\/p>\n<h2>2012<\/h2>\n<p>Challenged, but eventually retained at the Merrill (WI) High School despite some parents complaining that it is &#8220;questionable reading material for their tenth-grade students because of language, and sexual and racist themes.&#8221; School leaders added it to the curriculum twelve years ago, saying it was a less controversial substitute for Catcher in the Rye. School leaders also said students have the option of reading a different book if they don&#8217;t feel comfortable with the one they&#8217;re assigned.<\/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 15, 2021<\/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":784,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8976","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8976","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=8976"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9107,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8976\/revisions\/9107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}