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| examples of censorship in american history: Dangerous Ideas Eric Berkowitz, 2021-05-04 A fascinating examination of how restricting speech has continuously shaped our culture, and how censorship is used as a tool to prop up authorities and maintain class and gender disparities Through compelling narrative, historian Eric Berkowitz reveals how drastically censorship has shaped our modern society. More than just a history of censorship, Dangerous Ideas illuminates the power of restricting speech; how it has defined states, ideas, and culture; and (despite how each of us would like to believe otherwise) how it is something we all participate in. This engaging cultural history of censorship and thought suppression throughout the ages takes readers from the first Chinese emperor’s wholesale elimination of books, to Henry VIII’s decree of death for anyone who “imagined” his demise, and on to the attack on Charlie Hebdo and the volatile politics surrounding censorship of social media. Highlighting the base impulses driving many famous acts of suppression, Berkowitz demonstrates the fragility of power and how every individual can act as both the suppressor and the suppressed. |
| examples of censorship in american history: Censoring Sex John E. Semonche, 2007 In this gracefully written, accessible and entertaining volume, John Semonche surveys censorship for reasons of sex from the nineteenth century up until the present. He covers the various forms of American media--books and periodicals, pictorial art, motion pictures, music and dance, and radio, television, and the Internet. Despite the varieties of censorship, running from self-censorship to government bans, a common story is told. In each of the areas, Semonche explains via abundant examples how and why censorship took place. He also details how the cultural territory contested by those advocating and opposing censorship diminished over the course of the last two centuries. |
| examples of censorship in american history: The Mind of the Censor and the Eye of the Beholder Robert Corn-Revere, 2021-11-04 The book explores the importance of free speech in America by telling the stories of its chief antagonists - the censors. |
| examples of censorship in american history: Television and Growing Up: the Impact of Televised Violence United States. Surgeon General's Scientific Advisory Committee on Television and Social Behavior, 1972 |
| examples of censorship in american history: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (National Book Award Winner) Sherman Alexie, 2012-01-10 A New York Times bestseller—over one million copies sold! A National Book Award winner A Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the author's own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings by Ellen Forney that reflect the character's art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live. With a forward by Markus Zusak, interviews with Sherman Alexie and Ellen Forney, and black-and-white interior art throughout, this edition is perfect for fans and collectors alike. |
| examples of censorship in american history: The Freedom to Read American Library Association, 1953 |
| examples of censorship in american history: Lust on Trial Amy Werbel, 2018-04-17 Anthony Comstock was America’s first professional censor. From 1873 to 1915, as Secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, Comstock led a crusade against lasciviousness, salaciousness, and obscenity that resulted in the confiscation and incineration of more than three million pictures, postcards, and books he judged to be obscene. But as Amy Werbel shows in this rich cultural and social history, Comstock’s campaign to rid America of vice in fact led to greater acceptance of the materials he deemed objectionable, offering a revealing tale about the unintended consequences of censorship. In Lust on Trial, Werbel presents a colorful journey through Comstock’s career that doubles as a new history of post–Civil War America’s risqué visual and sexual culture. Born into a puritanical New England community, Anthony Comstock moved to New York in 1868 armed with his Christian faith and a burning desire to rid the city of vice. Werbel describes how Comstock’s raids shaped New York City and American culture through his obsession with the prevention of lust by means of censorship, and how his restrictions provided an impetus for the increased circulation and explicitness of “obscene” materials. By opposing women who preached sexual liberation and empowerment, suppressing contraceptives, and restricting artistic expression, Comstock drew the ire of civil liberties advocates, inspiring more open attitudes toward sexual and creative freedom and more sophisticated legal defenses. Drawing on material culture high and low, including numerous examples of the “obscenities” Comstock seized, Lust on Trial provides fresh insights into Comstock’s actions and motivations, the sexual habits of Americans during his era, and the complicated relationship between law and cultural change. |
| examples of censorship in american history: Censorship and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England Randy Robertson, 2015-10-20 Censorship profoundly affected early modern writing. Censorship and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England offers a detailed picture of early modern censorship and investigates the pressures that censorship exerted on seventeenth-century authors, printers, and publishers. In the 1600s, Britain witnessed a civil war, the judicial execution of a king, the restoration of his son, and an unremitting struggle among crown, parliament, and people for sovereignty and the right to define “liberty and property.” This battle, sometimes subtle, sometimes bloody, entailed a struggle for the control of language and representation. Robertson offers a richly detailed study of this “censorship contest” and of the craft that writers employed to outflank the licensers. He argues that for most parties, victory, not diplomacy or consensus, was the ultimate goal. This book differs from most recent works in analyzing both the mechanics of early modern censorship and the poetics that the licensing system produced—the forms and pressures of self-censorship. Among the issues that Robertson addresses in this book are the workings of the licensing machinery, the designs of art and obliquity under a regime of censorship, and the involutions of authorship attendant on anonymity. |
| examples of censorship in american history: A History of ALA Policy on Intellectual Freedom Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), 2015-07-01 Collecting several key documents and policy statements, this supplement to the ninth edition of the Intellectual Freedom Manual traces a history of ALA’s commitment to fighting censorship. An introductory essay by Judith Krug and Candace Morgan, updated by OIF Director Barbara Jones, sketches out an overview of ALA policy on intellectual freedom. An important resource, this volume includes documents which discuss such foundational issues as The Library Bill of RightsProtecting the freedom to readALA’s Code of EthicsHow to respond to challenges and concerns about library resourcesMinors and internet activityMeeting rooms, bulletin boards, and exhibitsCopyrightPrivacy, including the retention of library usage records |
| examples of censorship in american history: Outlaw Representation Richard Meyer, 2002 Outlaw Representation is a Beacon Press publication. |
| examples of censorship in american history: The Most Dangerous Book Kevin Birmingham, 2015-05-26 Recipient of the 2015 PEN New England Award for Nonfiction “The arrival of a significant young nonfiction writer . . . A measured yet bravura performance.” —Dwight Garner, The New York Times James Joyce’s big blue book, Ulysses, ushered in the modernist era and changed the novel for all time. But the genius of Ulysses was also its danger: it omitted absolutely nothing. Joyce, along with some of the most important publishers and writers of his era, had to fight for years to win the freedom to publish it. The Most Dangerous Book tells the remarkable story surrounding Ulysses, from the first stirrings of Joyce’s inspiration in 1904 to the book’s landmark federal obscenity trial in 1933. Written for ardent Joyceans as well as novices who want to get to the heart of the greatest novel of the twentieth century, The Most Dangerous Book is a gripping examination of how the world came to say Yes to Ulysses. |
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| examples of censorship in american history: BLM Mike Gonzalez, 2021-09-07 The George Floyd riots that have precipitated great changes throughout American society were not spontaneous events. Americans did not suddenly rise up in righteous anger, take to the streets, and demand not just that police departments be defunded but that all the structures, institutions, and systems of the United States—all supposedly racist—be overhauled. The 12,000 or so demonstrations and 633 related riots that followed Floyd’s death took organizational muscle. The movement’s grip on institutions from the classroom to the ballpark required ideological commitment. That muscle and commitment were provided by the various Black Lives Matter organizations. This book examines who the BLM leaders are, delving into their backgrounds and exposing their agendas—something the media has so far refused to do. These people are shown to be avowed Marxists who say they want to dismantle our way of life. Along with their fellow activists, they make savvy use of social media to spread their message and organize marches, sit-ins, statue tumblings, and riots. In 2020 they seized upon the video showing George Floyd’s suffering as a pretext to unleash a nationwide insurgency. Certainly, no person of good will could object to the proposition that “black lives matter” as much as any other human life. But Americans need to understand how their laudable moral concern is being exploited for purposes that a great many of them would not approve. |
| examples of censorship in american history: Unlearning Liberty Greg Lukianoff, 2014-03-11 For over a generation, shocking cases of censorship at America’s colleges and universities have taught students the wrong lessons about living in a free society. Drawing on a decade of experience battling for freedom of speech on campus, First Amendment lawyer Greg Lukianoff reveals how higher education fails to teach students to become critical thinkers: by stifling open debate, our campuses are supercharging ideological divisions, promoting groupthink, and encouraging an unscholarly certainty about complex issues. Lukianoff walks readers through the life of a modern-day college student, from orientation to the end of freshman year. Through this lens, he describes startling violations of free speech rights: a student in Indiana punished for publicly reading a book, a student in Georgia expelled for a pro-environment collage he posted on Facebook, students at Yale banned from putting an F. Scott Fitzgerald quote on a T shirt, and students across the country corralled into tiny “free speech zones” when they wanted to express their views. But Lukianoff goes further, demonstrating how this culture of censorship is bleeding into the larger society. As he explores public controversies involving Juan Williams, Rush Limbaugh, Bill Maher, Richard Dawkins, Larry Summers—even Dave Barry and Jon Stewart—Lukianoff paints a stark picture of our ability as a nation to discuss important issues rationally. Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate illuminates how intolerance for dissent and debate on today’s campus threatens the freedom of every citizen and makes us all just a little bit dumber. |
| examples of censorship in american history: Class Act Jerry Craft, 2020-10-06 New York Times bestselling author Jerry Craft returns with a companion book to New Kid, winner of the 2020 Newbery Medal, the Coretta Scott King Author Award, and the Kirkus Prize. This time, it’s Jordan’s friend Drew who takes center stage in another laugh-out-loud funny, powerful, and important story about being one of the few kids of color in a prestigious private school. Eighth grader Drew Ellis is no stranger to the saying “You have to work twice as hard to be just as good.” His grandmother has reminded him his entire life. But what if he works ten times as hard and still isn’t afforded the same opportunities that his privileged classmates at the Riverdale Academy Day School take for granted? To make matters worse, Drew begins to feel as if his good friend Liam might be one of those privileged kids. He wants to pretend like everything is fine, but it's hard not to withdraw, and even their mutual friend Jordan doesn't know how to keep the group together. As the pressures mount, will Drew find a way to bridge the divide so he and his friends can truly accept each other? And most important, will he finally be able to accept himself? New Kid, the first graphic novel to win the Newbery Medal, is now joined by Jerry Craft's powerful Class Act. |
| examples of censorship in american history: Hollywood's Censor Thomas Doherty, 2009-03-31 From 1934 to 1954 Joseph I. Breen, a media-savvy Victorian Irishman, reigned over the Production Code Administration, the Hollywood office tasked with censoring the American screen. Though little known outside the ranks of the studio system, this former journalist and public relations agent was one of the most powerful men in the motion picture industry. As enforcer of the puritanical Production Code, Breen dictated final cut over more movies than anyone in the history of American cinema. His editorial decisions profoundly influenced the images and values projected by Hollywood during the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. Cultural historian Thomas Doherty tells the absorbing story of Breen's ascent to power and the widespread effects of his reign. Breen vetted story lines, blue-penciled dialogue, and excised footage (a process that came to be known as Breening) to fit the demands of his strict moral framework. Empowered by industry insiders and millions of like-minded Catholics who supported his missionary zeal, Breen strove to protect innocent souls from the temptations beckoning from the motion picture screen. There were few elements of cinematic production beyond Breen's reach he oversaw the editing of A-list feature films, low-budget B movies, short subjects, previews of coming attractions, and even cartoons. Populated by a colorful cast of characters, including Catholic priests, Jewish moguls, visionary auteurs, hardnosed journalists, and bluenose agitators, Doherty's insightful, behind-the-scenes portrait brings a tumultuous era and an individual both feared and admired to vivid life. |
| examples of censorship in american history: Banned Books Robert P. Doyle, 2017 Provides a framework for understanding censorship and the protections guaranteed to us through the first amendment. Interpretations of the uniquely American notion of freedom of expression -- and our freedom to read what we choose -- are supplemented by straightforward, easily accessible information that will inspire further exploration. |
| examples of censorship in american history: Part of Our Lives Wayne A. Wiegand, 2015 Challenges conventional thinking and top-down definitions, instead drawing on the library user's perspective to argue that the public library's most important function is providing commonplace reading materials and public space. Challenges a professional ethos about public libraries and their responsibilities to fight censorship and defend intellectual freedom. Demonstrates that the American public library has been (with some notable exceptions) a place that welcomed newcomers, accepted diversity, and constructed community since the end of the 19th century. Shows how stories that cultural authorities have traditionally disparaged- i.e. books that are not serious- have often been transformative for public library users. |
| examples of censorship in american history: Censoring Culture Robert Atkins, Svetlana Mintcheva, 2006 A bestselling art historian and a free speech advocate explore subtle new forms of censorship in the art world and beyond. In private, museum people have told me that self-censorship is indeed the order of the day. But it is quite rare for an official to speak about it in public. Self-censorship occurs behind closed doors. There are practically no whistle-blowers.--Hans Haacke, conceptual artist known for his socially and politically engaged art If your idea of censorship is an anonymous bureaucrat in a government office exercising prudish control over offensive art and speech, wake up and smell the conglomeration. Censorship today is just as likely to be the result of a market force or a bandwidth monopoly as a line edit or the covering of a nude sculpture, and the current system of new technologies and economic arrangements has subtle, built-in mechanisms for suppressing free expression as powerful as any known in other centuries. In Censoring Culture, the nationally known author of the ArtSpeak books and the head of the National Coalition Against Censorship's Arts Program bring together the latest thinking from art historians, cultural theorists, legal scholars, and psychoanalysts, as well as first-person accounts by artists and advocates, to give us a comprehensive understanding of censorship in a new century. Contributors include: - J.M. Coetzee, Judy Blume, and others on self-censorship - Hans Haacke on the marriage of art and money - DeeDee Halleck on the military-media-industrial complex - Marjorie Heins on violence and children - Randall Kennedy on the risks of regulating hate speech - Lawrence Lessig on creativity and copyright inthe electronic age - Judith Levine on shielding children from sex - Diane Ravitch on sensitivity guidelines for national testing - Douglas Thomas on hackers and hacking culture |
| examples of censorship in american history: Revolutionary Dissent Stephen D. Solomon, 2016-04-26 When members of the founding generation protested against British authority, debated separation, and then ratified the Constitution, they formed the American political character we know today-raucous, intemperate, and often mean-spirited. Revolutionary Dissent brings alive a world of colorful and stormy protests that included effigies, pamphlets, songs, sermons, cartoons, letters and liberty trees. Solomon explores through a series of chronological narratives how Americans of the Revolutionary period employed robust speech against the British and against each other. Uninhibited dissent provided a distinctly American meaning to the First Amendment's guarantees of freedom of speech and press at a time when the legal doctrine inherited from England allowed prosecutions of those who criticized government. Solomon discovers the wellspring in our revolutionary past for today's satirists like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, pundits like Rush Limbaugh and Keith Olbermann, and protests like flag burning and street demonstrations. From the inflammatory engravings of Paul Revere, the political theater of Alexander McDougall, the liberty tree protests of Ebenezer McIntosh and the oratory of Patrick Henry, Solomon shares the stories of the dissenters who created the American idea of the liberty of thought. This is truly a revelatory work on the history of free expression in America. |
| examples of censorship in american history: Our Enduring Values Michael Gorman, 2000-06 A must-read for progressive librarians everywhere, Our Enduring Values will help you to define your role in the library of the future. |
| examples of censorship in american history: Free Speech for Me--but Not for Thee Nat Hentoff, 1993 Hentoff's timely, fact-filled, and illuminating book describes the current assault on free speech from all points of the political spectrum--even from the traditionally liberal groups now intent on repressing opinions thought politically incorrect. |
| examples of censorship in american history: Black Boy [Seventy-fifth Anniversary Edition] Richard Wright, 2020-02-18 A special 75th anniversary edition of Richard Wright's powerful and unforgettable memoir, with a new foreword by John Edgar Wideman and an afterword by Malcolm Wright, the author’s grandson. When it exploded onto the literary scene in 1945, Black Boy was both praised and condemned. Orville Prescott of the New York Times wrote that “if enough such books are written, if enough millions of people read them maybe, someday, in the fullness of time, there will be a greater understanding and a more true democracy.” Yet from 1975 to 1978, Black Boy was banned in schools throughout the United States for “obscenity” and “instigating hatred between the races.” Wright’s once controversial, now celebrated autobiography measures the raw brutality of the Jim Crow South against the sheer desperate will it took to survive as a Black boy. Enduring poverty, hunger, fear, abuse, and hatred while growing up in the woods of Mississippi, Wright lied, stole, and raged at those around him—whites indifferent, pitying, or cruel and Blacks resentful of anyone trying to rise above their circumstances. Desperate for a different way of life, he headed north, eventually arriving in Chicago, where he forged a new path and began his career as a writer. At the end of Black Boy, Wright sits poised with pencil in hand, determined to “hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo.” Seventy-five years later, his words continue to reverberate. “To read Black Boy is to stare into the heart of darkness,” John Edgar Wideman writes in his foreword. “Not the dark heart Conrad searched for in Congo jungles but the beating heart I bear.” One of the great American memoirs, Wright’s account is a poignant record of struggle and endurance—a seminal literary work that illuminates our own time. |
| examples of censorship in american history: The New Censorship Joel Simon, 2014-11-11 An examination of how the media is under fire and how to safeguard journalists and the information they seek to share with the public. Journalists are being imprisoned and killed in record numbers. Online surveillance is annihilating privacy, and the Internet can be brought under government control at any time. Joel Simon, the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, warns that we can no longer assume that our global information ecosystem is stable, protected, and robust. Journalists are increasingly vulnerable to attack by authoritarian governments, militants, criminals, and terrorists, who all seek to use technology, political pressure, and violence to set the global information agenda. Reporting from Pakistan, Russia, Turkey, Egypt, and Mexico, among other hotspots, Simon finds journalists under threat from all sides. The result is a growing crisis in information—a shortage of the news we need to make sense of our globalized world and fight human rights abuses, manage conflict, and promote accountability. Drawing on his experience defending journalists on the front lines, he calls on “global citizens,” U.S. policy makers, international law advocates, and human rights groups to create a global freedom-of-expression agenda tied to trade, climate, and other major negotiations. He proposes ten key priorities, including combating the murder of journalists, ending censorship, and developing a global free-expression charter to challenge the criminal and corrupt forces that seek to manipulate the world's news. “Wise and insightful. [Simon] offers hope to all who care about maintaining the free flow of information in a world full of would-be censors.”—Ann Cooper, Columbia Journalism School |
| examples of censorship in american history: New English Canaan of Thomas Morton Thomas Morton, 1883 |
| examples of censorship in american history: The Black Book of Polish Censorship Jane Leftwich Curry, 1984 Contains the verbatim text of the notorious Blackbook of notes and recommendations, used by government censors in the Office for the Control of the Press, Publications, and Entertainment. |
| examples of censorship in american history: All Good Books Are Catholic Books Una M. Cadegan, 2013-09-15 Until the close of the Second Vatican Council in 1965, the stance of the Roman Catholic Church toward the social, cultural, economic, and political developments of the twentieth century was largely antagonistic. Naturally opposed to secularization, skeptical of capitalist markets indifferent to questions of justice, confused and appalled by new forms of high and low culture, and resistant to the social and economic freedom of women—in all of these ways the Catholic Church set itself up as a thoroughly anti-modern institution. Yet, in and through the period from World War I to Vatican II, the Church did engage with, react to, and even accommodate various aspects of modernity. In All Good Books Are Catholic Books, Una M. Cadegan shows how the Church’s official position on literary culture developed over this crucial period.The Catholic Church in the United States maintained an Index of Prohibited Books and the National Legion of Decency (founded in 1933) lobbied Hollywood to edit or ban movies, pulp magazines, and comic books that were morally suspect. These regulations posed an obstacle for the self-understanding of Catholic American readers, writers, and scholars. But as Cadegan finds, Catholics developed a rationale by which they could both respect the laws of the Church as it sought to protect the integrity of doctrine and also engage the culture of artistic and commercial freedom in which they operated as Americans. Catholic literary figures including Flannery O’Connor and Thomas Merton are important to Cadegan’s argument, particularly as their careers and the reception of their work demonstrate shifts in the relationship between Catholicism and literary culture. Cadegan trains her attention on American critics, editors, and university professors and administrators who mediated the relationship among the Church, parishioners, and the culture at large. |
| examples of censorship in american history: Free Speech Joseph R. Fornieri, David Tucker, 2020-12-31 |
| examples of censorship in american history: The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown Louise S. Robbins, 2022-11 In 1950 Ruth W. Brown, librarian at the Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Public Library, was summarily dismissed from her job after thirty years of exemplary service, ostensibly because she had circulated subversive materials. In truth, however, Brown was fired because she had become active in promoting racial equality and had helped form a group affiliated with the Congress of Racial Equality. Louise S. Robbins tells the story of the political, social, economic, and cultural threads that became interwoven in a particular time and place, creating a strong web of opposition. This combination of forces ensnared Ruth Brown and her colleagues-for the most part women and African Americans-who championed the cause of racial equality. This episode in a small Oklahoma town almost a half-century ago is more than a disturbing local event. It exemplifies the McCarthy era, foregrounding those who labored for racial justice, sometimes at great cost, before the civil rights movement. In addition, it reveals a masking of concerns that led even Brown’s allies to obscure the cause of racial integration for which she fought. Relevant today, Ruth Brown’s story helps us understand the matrix of personal, community, state, and national forces that can lead to censorship, intolerance, and the suppression of individual rights. |
| examples of censorship in american history: Parental Advisory Eric D. Nuzum, 2009-10-13 Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About The Music Your Parents Never Wanted You To Hear Believe it or not, music censorship in America did not begin with Tipper Gore's horrified reaction to her daughter's Prince album. The vilification of popular music by government and individuals has been going on for decades. Now, for the first time, Parental Advisory offers a thorough and complete chronicle of the music that has been challenged or suppressed -- by the people or the government -- in the United States. From Dean Martin's Wham, Bam, Thank you Ma'am to Marilyn Manson's Antichrist Superstar; from freedom fighters such as Frank Zappa and in-your-face rappers such a N.W.A. to crusaders such as Tipper Gore, this intelligent and entertaining book shows how censorship has crossed sexual, class, and ethnic lines, and how many see it as a de facto form of racism. With nearly one hundred fascinating photographs of musicians, record burning, and controversial cover art; illuminating sidebars; and a decade-by-decade timeline of important moments in censorship history, Parental Advisory is by turns frightening and hilarious -- but always revealing. |
| examples of censorship in american history: Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds Dawn B. Sova, 2006 Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds, Revised Edition examines the issues underlying the suppression of more than 100 works deemed sexually obscene. The entries new to this edition include America by Jon Stewart, Sex by Madonna, The Buffalo Tree by Adam Rapp, and many more. Also included are updates to entries such as Forever by Judy Blume, and more |
| examples of censorship in american history: Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury, 1968 A fireman in charge of burning books meets a revolutionary school teacher who dares to read. Depicts a future world in which all printed reading material is burned. |
| examples of censorship in american history: Lessons in Censorship Catherine J. Ross, 2015-10-19 American public schools often censor controversial student speech that the Constitution protects. Lessons in Censorship brings clarity to a bewildering array of court rulings that define the speech rights of young citizens in the school setting. Catherine J. Ross examines disputes that have erupted in our schools and courts over the civil rights movement, war and peace, rights for LGBTs, abortion, immigration, evangelical proselytizing, and the Confederate flag. She argues that the failure of schools to respect civil liberties betrays their educational mission and threatens democracy. From the 1940s through the Warren years, the Supreme Court celebrated free expression and emphasized the role of schools in cultivating liberty. But the Burger, Rehnquist, and Roberts courts retreated from that vision, curtailing certain categories of student speech in the name of order and authority. Drawing on hundreds of lower court decisions, Ross shows how some judges either misunderstand the law or decline to rein in censorship that is clearly unconstitutional, and she powerfully demonstrates the continuing vitality of the Supreme Court’s initial affirmation of students’ expressive rights. Placing these battles in their social and historical context, Ross introduces us to the young protesters, journalists, and artists at the center of these stories. Lessons in Censorship highlights the troubling and growing tendency of schools to clamp down on off-campus speech such as texting and sexting and reveals how well-intentioned measures to counter verbal bullying and hate speech may impinge on free speech. Throughout, Ross proposes ways to protect free expression without disrupting education. |
| examples of censorship in american history: Literature Suppressed on Religious Grounds Margaret Bald, 2014-05-14 Literature Suppressed on Religious Grounds, Revised Edition profiles the censorship of many such essential works of literature. The entries new to this edition include extensive coverage of the Harry Potter series, which has been frequently banned in the United States on the grounds that it promotes witchcraft, as well as entries on two popular textbook series, The Witches by Roald Dahl, Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran, and more. Also included are updates to such entries as The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie and On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin. |
| examples of censorship in american history: Censorship of the American Theatre in the Twentieth Century John H. Houchin, 2003-06-26 John Houchin explores the impact of censorship in twentieth-century American theatre. He argues that theatrical censorship coincides with significant challenges to religious, political and cultural traditions. Along with the well-known instance of the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s, other almost equally influential events shaped the course of the American stage during the century. The book is arranged in chronological order. It provides a summary of censorship in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America and then analyses key political and theatrical events between 1900 and 2000. These include a discussion of the 1913 riot after the Abbey Theatre touring produdtion of Playboy of the Western World; protests against Clifford Odet's Waiting for Lefty, performed by militant workers during the Depression; and reactions to the recent play Angels in America. |
| examples of censorship in american history: Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak, 1988-11-09 Max is sent to bed without supper and imagines sailing away to the land of Wild Things,where he is made king. Winner, 1964 Caldecott Medal Notable Children's Books of 1940–1970 (ALA) 1981 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Illustration 1963, 1982 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book) Best Illustrated Children's Books of 1963, 1982 (NYT) A Reading Rainbow Selection 1964 Lewis Carroll Shelf Award Children's Books of 1981 (Library of Congress) 1981 Children's Books (NY Public Library) 100 Books for Reading and Sharing 1988 (NY Public Library) |
| examples of censorship in american history: American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis, 2014-12-15 A cult classic, adapted into a film starring Christian Bale. Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do? Patrick Bateman has it all: good looks, youth, charm, a job on Wall Street, reservations at every new restaurant in town and a line of girls around the block. He is also a psychopath. A man addicted to his superficial, perfect life, he pulls us into a dark underworld where the American Dream becomes a nightmare . . . With an introduction by Irvine Welsh, Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho is one of the most controversial and talked-about novels of all time. A multi-million-copy bestseller hailed as a modern classic, it is a violent black comedy about the darkest side of human nature. |
| examples of censorship in american history: The Naked Communist Willard Cleon Skousen, 1961 |
| examples of censorship in american history: Carnegie Libraries George Sylvan Bobinski, 1969 Carnegie and the Carnegie Corporation provided funding for 1,681 public library buildings in 1,412 U.S. communities between 1889 and 1923. This philanthropy had a great impact on the growth of public library development in the United States. Free public libraries supported by local taxation had begun with Boston in 1849 and slowly spread throughout the country. The Carnegie benefactions made them leap forward. This internationally famous celebrity chose libraries as one of the primary sources for his philanthropy. He also attached two conditions to his offer of money for a public library building--the local community had to provide a suitable site and formally agree to continuously support the library through local tax funds. The latter solidified acceptance of the concept of tax support for libraries. |
| examples of censorship in american history: 120 Banned Books Nicholas J. Karolides, Margaret Bald, Dawn B. Sova, 2022 From the Bible to The Hate U Give: a completely updated look at the history of censorship in world literature. Throughout history, nations, peoples, and governments have censored writers and their works on political, religious, sexual, and social grounds. Although the literary merit of the majority of these books has been proven time and time again, censorship efforts are still in place today. From Animal Farm to The Grapes of Wrath, The Koran to The Talmud, Beloved to the Harry Potter series, The Canterbury Tales to Catch-22, this revised edition examines the many struggles these books faced in order to be read-- |
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Examples - Apache ECharts
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Examples - Apache ECharts
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Apache ECharts
ECharts: A Declarative Framework for Rapid Construction of Web-based Visualization. 如果您在科研项目、产品、学术论文、技术报告、新闻报告、教育、专利以及其他相关活动中使用了 Apache …
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Scopes: The Battle Over America's Soul - HISTORY
Extended Activities: 1. One of the major texts at the core of the evolution debate and the Scopes trial was Charles Darwin’s Origins of the Species.Darwin’s book has been associated with
Censorship: What Do School Library Specialists Really Know?
Censorship of school library collections has risen significantly in the last few decades, and such attacks are increasing. American courts have ruled that students in schools have First …
Cancel Culture - FINAL - Pew Research Center
May 19, 2021 · 14 Censorship of speech or history 12 Mean-spirited actions taken to cause others harm 9 People cancelling anyone they disagree with 6 Those who are challenged face …
Propaganda, misinformation, and histories of media …
Apr 15, 2021 · with the history of propaganda and with how propaganda has been studied by media and communication researchers is an empirical detriment to it, and serves to make the …
Protection Versus First Amendment Violation: Self-Censorship …
Dec 16, 2012 · practice of self-censorship among youth services, young adult, and school librarians. The history of self-censorship in youth services librarianship, which contributes to …
A Short History of Film and Censorship in Mainland China
It is clear that strict censorship debilitates creativity and restricts what Chinese cinema audiences can watch. Despite this censorship, film production in China is at an all-time high. In the year …
Fahrenheit 451: A history of censorship - PBworks
Fahrenheit 451: A history of censorship "I wasn't trying to predict the future when I wrote Fahrenheit 451. I was trying to prevent it."-Ray Bradbury Part I: Look on the internet (some …
The Falsification Of History - archive.internationalinsurance
Chapter 1: The Tools of Falsification: Propaganda and Censorship; Selective Memory and Narrative Construction; The Role of Ideology and Power. Chapter 2: Case Studies of …
Unfit to Print: The Practice of Press Censorship During the …
the twentieth century) and stress the continuity of American censorship efforts over several decades, that the censorship tactics of the war were in large part a reemergence of tactics that …
Fahrenheit 451: The Burning of American Culture
This was a difficult time in American history when loyalty oaths, an irrational fear of Communism, and Cold War ethics reigned supreme. Ray Bradbury used ... camps analyze the novel’s …
Censorship and the Media: A Foreword - scholarship.law.nd.edu
nent parts-what he terms "bad" self censorship and "good" self censorship-and arguing that the former is properly deterred, and the latter properly fostered, by the United States Supreme …
How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism but …
How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism but Silences ... precedented in recorded world history. Unlike in the U.S., where social media is centralized through a few providers, in …
HEGEMONY THE DECLINE OF FREE SPEECH IN THE UNITED …
2022 The Decline of Free Speech 575 Noam Chomsky, signed a letter raising alarm over the growing in-tolerance for opposing views, 9 they were denounced by col- leagues. 10 At the …
Seeing Red: A Historiographical Study of the American …
American Communist Party is that of a uniquely American radical movement being transformed into a tool of the Soviet Government. He stated as much when he said, “it was transformed …
Communication Media in the Philippines: 1521-1986
The American regime saw the introduction of new newspapers published mostly by American journalists: The Manila Times (1898), The Bounding Billow and Official Gazette (1898), Manila …
The Parents' Music Resource Center: From Information to …
a careful assessment of the American situation in itself. At first sight, the European case may indeed seem quite different, as will be illustrated with reference to some examples in France. …
Pan American Airways LATI substitute service 1942
American flights from Natal to Lisbon had taken place, bypassing Bathurst and carrying Axis mail unintercepted in both directions. Only a few of the later flights actually called at Bathurst, and …
CULTURAL IMPERIALISM IN THE PHILIPPINES
After the brutal conquest of the Philippines, some of the American troops ingratiated themselves with the people by becoming public school teachers and teaching English. Then, shiploads of …
A Battle Over 20th Century Textbooks: - Cal Poly
Court, 4 Historians argued that southern groups played a vital role in influencing this era’s textbook and educational landscape.6 They also emphasized the connection between the …
PRICE CONTROLS: HOW THE US HAS USED THEM AND HOW …
points” (see Tucker 2021)—needs special, “distinctly American” workarounds to succeed. The controls implemented during World War I—at a time when the federal government was …
Lessons from McCarthyism - SAGE Journals
als, then further censorship in the present seems much less threatening. If the damage is measured by a less fearful but more uni-versal self-censorship then the comparison is …
Definition of Censorship Censorship in Libraries - San José …
Censorship in Libraries Usually an attempt to remove material from the collection Some libraries have an official “challenge” policy Censorship in Libraries “A challenge is an attempt to remove …
Morals Versus Art: Censorship, The Politics of Interpretation
Mar 24, 2017 · politics. African-American leaders condemned the painting as a symbolic lynching, contend-ing that it evoked past images of the castration of "uppity" black men (p. 36). Thus, …
Catholic University Law Review
Jan 3, 2022 · oneself is a cherished right anchored in the Constitution. To be sure, American history is rife with turmoil testing the limits of free speech. For example, the fog of war has been …
Self-Censorship in Hollywood during the Silent Era: - JSTOR
KEY WORDS: A Woman of Affairs, Clarence Brown, self-censorship, Will Hays, MPPDA, The Green Hat, Michael Arlen Censorship in American cinema arose almost as soon as the …
THE HISTORICAL ROOTS OF CHINESE COMMUNIST …
of socialist propaganda and censorship seem farfetched and forced. Many, no doubt, wonder how a society as obsessed with history, culture, and scholarship as the Chinese could have largely …
mccarthyism 1947–1960 - Historians for Peace
have driven the right’s ascent, and defend the discipline of history against attempts to reduce it to affirmations of “American great-ness,” documenting how prior eras of reaction were …
Explainer: Japanese Propaganda in the Philippines - Duty to …
Sep 4, 2021 · in touch with American forces during the war. Filipinos made their own ink; paper was scarce, so surviving newspapers are often printed on the reverse of other items. The …
Censorship in History Textbooks: How Knowledge of the Past …
American history by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) showed that 45 ... examples of gender equality, racial and ethnic minorities in professional positions, and other …
Scholarly Commons - Ouachita Baptist University
2000 and 2007 could easily be 19,000 (American Library Association). As a Christian and English major at a Baptist university, I believe this issue is particularly relevant to my life. How has the …
A HISTORY OF AMERICAN CIVIL WAR LITERATURE
A HISTORY OF AMERICAN CIVIL WAR LITERATURE Th is book is the fi rst omnibus history of the literature of the American Civil War, the deadliest confl ict in U.S. history. A History of …
Peering down the Memory Hole: Censorship, Digitization, and …
Chinese characteristics, Party history, the history of the PRC, the history of the people’s armed forces, Party leaders, and acclaimed heroes and role models.”10 And lately it has begun to …
Impacts of Censorship On Political Polarization - Rollins College
libertarian have expressed concerns over a perceived increase in social media censorship of their ideas. Whether real or perceived, the fear of censorship has directly contributed to a vicious …
Early Cinema History and the Emergence of “Filipino” Film
86 Campos • Early Cinema History and the Emergence of “FIlipino” Film Historicizing Foresight: and the Future In Cine, Deocampo puts forward his presupposition that not only is the …
A short guide to the history of ’fake news’ and disinforma
4 Campaign”20, employed the ‘domino theory’ as a fear tactic to suppress opposition to the war21 - if one country came under communist influence or control, its neighbouring countries would …
LESSON PLAN: NAZI RACIAL IDEOLOGY AND PROPAGANDA
READ: NAZI PROPAGANDA AND CENSORSHIP OVERVIEW: The Nazis used propaganda to win the support of millions of Germans. …To accomplish this goal, they tried to control forms of …
How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism
How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism but Silences Collective Expression1 Gary King, Jennifer Pan, Molly Roberts ... (Other examples: Iran, Saudia Arabia, Syria, Vietnam, …
The History of Radio and its Influence in America during the …
to explain what mass media is, offer a brief history of radio, and document examples of how this electronic media medium influenced American culture in the 1920s and 1930s. Mass media is a …
THE CENSORSHIP OF TELEVISION
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Private Censorship, Disinformation and the First Amendment: …
PRIVATE CENSORSHIP, DISINFORMATION AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT: RETHINKING ONLINE PLATFORMS REGULATION IN THE ERA OF A GLOBAL PANDEMIC. Tzu- Chiang …
How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism but …
the expressed views of the Chinese people is unprecedented in recorded world history. Unlike in the U.S., where social media is centralized through a few providers, in China it is fractured …
FEATURE A History of Censorship in the United States
libraries, and how the same issues of censorship have now transitioned into the digital age. T hroughout the history of the United States, there are many examples of censor-ship and …
CENSORSHIP IN PUBLIC LIBRARIES - University of Alabama
how it relates to libraries. Examples of censorship exist throughout history, “from the Spanish Inquisition or the New England witch hunts to the book burnings of Nazi Germany” (Molz, 1990, …
Talk This Way: A Look at the Historical Conversation Between …
the faculty of the Department of History East Tennessee State University In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Master of Arts in History _____ by Joshua Swanson August 2020 …
Heavy Metal under Scrutiny: The Controversial Battle for …
with Satanism and the corruption of American youth, initiating a witch hunt of the genre’s musicians that aimed to silence them through censorship. The main purpose of this study will …
Explicit Lyrics: The First Amendment Free Speech Rulings That …
Indeed, both in the United States and across the globe, history is replete with examples of governments trying to hinder musical expression, with restrictions coming at the performance, …
More than Pleasure: The Pornographic Novel in Eighteenth …
with an emphasis on France from 1643 to 1815, Ancient Greco-Roman history, and the history of sailing. She is currently a graduate student at the University of Texas at Arlington, pursuing a …
American Library Association- The Freedom to Read Statement
Now as always in our history, reading is among our greatest freedoms. The freedom to read and write is almost the only means for making generally available ideas or manners of expression …
The View from an Open Window: Soviet Censorship Policy
Union, as a central event in the history of censorship. Music magnifies the inherent futility of censorship, and as such, I use this investigation in conjunction with the case-studies to …
An Examination of University Speech Codes Constitutionality …
Feb 26, 2018 · 1. A brief history, definitions and literature review of university speech codes (p. 1.) 2. The argument in favor of speech codes (p. 12) 3. Notable U.S. court rulings on legality of …
