Conference presentation and paper on the dynamics of censorship in children's literature. Presented at the University of Los Angeles, California for the conference, "Information paradigms, practices, & policies in the 21st century."
3. Hello class, today we will be discussing…
• American Exceptionalism
• The supremacy of capitalism
• The right to bear arms
• Limited government
• Christian values
• The Moral Majority
4. We will not be discussing….
•Separation of church and state
• The Civil Rights Movement
• LBGT issues
• Women
• Minority figures
• Evolution
• Global warming
5. Who would you ask about the Civil
War?
Your dentist or a history professor at Princeton?
6. Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it
-Edmund Burke
8. ALA’s Position on Censorship
While we firmly support the right of every reader to
choose or reject a book for themselves or their
families, those objecting to a particular book should
not be given the power to restrict other readers’ right
to access and read that book. As members of a
pluralistic and complex society, we must have free
access to a diverse range of viewpoints on the human
condition in order to foster critical thinking and
understanding. We must protect one of the most
precious of our fundamental rights – the freedom
to read.
-Barbara Jones, director of the Office
of Intellectual Freedom
9. This is my son Aidan.
We read…
• Where The Wild Things Are
• The Giving Tree
• SkippyJon Jones
• Where the Sidewalk Ends
• All the World
• Tuesday
• Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
• No David!
• Captain Underpants
• The Napping House
• King Bidgood’s In The Bathtub
• Flotsam
• Jumanji
• Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!