Ban that firebrand Lwarence Uptonøs books!!!
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
Sent: 23 December 2014 11:47
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Subject: Re: Tucson says no
Seems reasonable to me. These are all very dangerous authors and works. I
haven't read them all but I am sure that's true.
I remember, decades ago, reading that the Melbourne police were
investigating a young man because he was reading a book called The Republic.
Written by some chap called Playdo - obviously a false name.
Thank God (sic) that good people are here to protect us
L
On 23 December 2014 at 01:07, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> ...list of books that have been removed from the Tucson public school
> system as part of this wholesale elimination of the Mexican-American
> studies curriculum. The authors and editors include Isabel Allende,
> Junot Díaz, Jonathan Kozol, Rudolfo Anaya, bell hooks, Sandra
> Cisneros, James Baldwin, Howard Zinn, Rodolfo Acuña, Ronald Takaki,
> Jerome Skolnick and Gloria Anzaldúa. Even Thoreau's Civil Disobedience
> and Shakespeare's The Tempest received the hatchet.
>
>
> http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/may/18/anti-intellectual
> ism-us-book-banning
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