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PEN America Releases New Report on Nonfiction Censorship
PEN America shares the following:In its latest report on book bans in public schools, PEN America … documents a doubling of censorship of nonfiction on subjects from history and health to general knowledge, including biographies and memoirs. The targeting of titles about real events or people underscores ‘an embrace of anti-intellectualism’ within the book banning movement, according to the new report Facts & Fiction: Stories Stripped Away By Book Bans. … Twenty-nine percent of the unique titles banned last school year were nonfiction. In addition, approximately 13% of all unique titles fell into the educational/informational genre—texts primarily written for students for reference or learning purposes and covering a range of subjects. Overall, the rise of banned nonfiction and educational titles exposed a new casualty in the campaign to suppress and restrict learning, which goes hand in hand with efforts to undermine public education and librarianship itself, the report states. For more information, read the press release.
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