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The author of a children's book pulled last month because of its smiling depiction of slaves says she herself objected to the illustrations and had expressed early concerns with the publisher, Scholastic.

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    05/5/2024 - 2:10 am | View Link
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    Titles highlighting Asian American cultures have been targets of book banning efforts by critics, prompting concerns about representation in literature.
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    This volume is her eighth and won the National Book Award, and Perry personally was made a MacArthur Fellow. “South to America” is in a tradition of journey/commentaries on the South. Sometimes the ...
    05/1/2024 - 9:47 pm | View Link
  • Slavery isn’t just a Southern story. The North benefited from stolen labor.
    Investigative journalist David Montero untangles the economic ties binding the Browns and other Northern business owners to the slaveholders of the South in “The Stolen Wealth of Slavery: A Case for ...
    04/28/2024 - 12:34 am | View Link
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