Outcry in Montgomery county as Linda Coombs’ book on European colonization of Native American land reclassifiedAnti-censorship advocates have joined book publisher Penguin Random House in condemning a Texas county that reclassified an account of European settlers’ colonization of Indigenous Americans as fiction.The furor in Montgomery county – near Houston – follows the decision by a citizens review panel, at the behest of rightwing activists, to place Colonization and the Wampanoag Story by Linda Coombs in the fiction section of children’s libraries. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/21/texas-book-ban
Author : Richard Luscombe
Publish date : 2024-10-21 11:00:33
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Texas condemned for placing book on colonization in library’s fiction section
