| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 175 pages). |
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text file |
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Beta Phi Mu scholars
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Beta Phi Mu scholars.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-165) and index. |
| Contents |
Trusting the system -- Power and knowledge -- Perfect timing -- The Moral decline of society, institutions, and the family -- Reading should edify the soul -- Fear, knowledge and power. |
| Summary |
Requests for the removal, relocation, and restriction of books -- also known as challenges -- occur with some frequency in the United States. Book Banning in 21st Century America, based on fifteen contemporary book challenges cases in schools and public libraries across the United States, argues that understanding contemporary reading practices, especially interpretive strategies, is vital to understanding why people attempt to censor books in schools and public libraries. Focusing on the why of censorship, Knox posits that many censorship attempts are intimately tied to how one understands the practice of reading and its effects on character development and behavior. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Public libraries -- Censorship -- United States.
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Public libraries -- Censorship. |
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United States. |
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Public libraries. |
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School libraries -- Censorship -- United States.
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School libraries -- Censorship. |
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Challenged books -- United States.
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School libraries. |
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Intellectual freedom -- United States.
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Challenged books. |
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Books and reading -- United States.
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Intellectual freedom. |
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Books and reading. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. |
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Books and reading -- Psychological aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Case studies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Book banning in 21st-century America. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015] 9781442231672 (DLC) 2014036356 |
| ISBN |
9781442231689 (ebook) |
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1442231688 |
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9781322643533 (MyiLibrary) |
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1322643539 (MyiLibrary) |
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9781442231672 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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144223167X |
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