The Wet Nurse's Tale by Erica Eisdorfer6/28/2023 ![]() We love Banned Books Week, partly because it’s fun to see students’ eyes widen when they read that, for example, Anne Frank’s diary was removed from Alabama school shelves because “it’s a real downer.” Or that Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States was banned from an AP high school class in Virginia because “it’s un-American, leftist propaganda.” Or that Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, the classic look at Native American history from the Indian point of view, was challenged in Wisconsin because “if there’s a possibility that a book might be controversial, why not eliminate it?” Further, when the students realize that many books have been challenged across the country this very year alone-the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary was-Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel & Dimed was-they’re rudely awakened to the strange politics of censorship in America. ![]() ![]() The Bull’s Head Bookshop, here on the UNC’s Chapel Hill campus, is eager to cut the cake. ![]() Erica Eisdorfer is more than just a booklover, she’s a novelist and a bookseller, too, and she’s had first-hand experience on the censorship front.–ellenīanned Books Week 2010 is the 29 th annual celebration of our freedom to read. As we kick off Banned Books Week, we welcome a guest post today from someone committed to the freedom to read. ![]()
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