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| examples of censorship in 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 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 history: Apology Plato Plato, 2016-03-17 Plato's Guide to the Good Life “The unexamined life is not worth living” -Apology, Plato An original account of the speech Socrates makes at the trial in which he is charged with not recognizing the gods recognized by the state, inventing new deities, and corrupting the youth of Athens. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This eBook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes |
| examples of censorship in 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 history: Censorship, Or Freedom of Expression? Nancy Day, 2001-01-01 Examines the First Amendment, the issue of censorship in publishing, schools, the arts and entertainment, and the Internet, and government involvement. |
| examples of censorship in 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. |
| examples of censorship in history: Areopagitica John Milton, 1874 |
| examples of censorship in 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 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 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 history: Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature Robert Darnton, 2014-09-22 Splendid…[Darnton gives] us vivid, hard-won detail, illuminating narrative, and subtle, original insight. —Timothy Garton Ash, New York Review of Books With his uncanny ability to spark life in the past, Robert Darnton re-creates three historical worlds in which censorship shaped literary expression in distinctive ways. In eighteenth-century France, censors, authors, and booksellers collaborated in making literature by navigating the intricate culture of royal privilege. Even as the king's censors outlawed works by Voltaire, Rousseau, and other celebrated Enlightenment writers, the head censor himself incubated Diderot’s great Encyclopedie by hiding the banned project’s papers in his Paris townhouse. Relationships at court trumped principle in the Old Regime. Shaken by the Sepoy uprising in 1857, the British Raj undertook a vast surveillance of every aspect of Indian life, including its literary output. Years later the outrage stirred by the British partition of Bengal led the Raj to put this knowledge to use. Seeking to suppress Indian publications that it deemed seditious, the British held hearings in which literary criticism led to prison sentences. Their efforts to meld imperial power and liberal principle fed a growing Indian opposition. In Communist East Germany, censorship was a component of the party program to engineer society. Behind the unmarked office doors of Ninety Clara-Zetkin Street in East Berlin, censors developed annual plans for literature in negotiation with high party officials and prominent writers. A system so pervasive that it lodged inside the authors’ heads as self-censorship, it left visible scars in the nation’s literature. By rooting censorship in the particulars of history, Darnton's revealing study enables us to think more clearly about efforts to control expression past and present. |
| examples of censorship in 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 history: Political Censorship of the Arts and the Press in Nineteenth-Century Robert Justin Goldstein, 1989-08-14 Political Censorship of the Arts and the Press in Nineteenth-Century Europe presents a comprehensive account of the attempts by authorities throughout Europe to stifle the growth of political opposition during the nineteenth-century by censoring newspapers, books, caricatures, plays, operas and film. Appeals for democracy and social reform were especially suspect to the authorities, so in Russia cookbooks which refered to 'free air' in ovens were censored as subversive, while in England in 1829 the censor struck from a play the remark that 'honest men at court don't take up much room'. While nineteenth-century European political censorship blocked the open circulation of much opposition writing and art, it never succeeded entirely in its aim since writers, artists and 'consumers' often evaded the censors by clandestine circulation of forbidden material and by the widely practised skill of 'reading between the lines'. |
| examples of censorship in history: Censorship and Information Control Ada Palmer, Julia Tomasson, 2018-10-05 A catalog of the exhibit held in the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Library, September through December 2018 |
| examples of censorship in 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 history: The Freedom to Read American Library Association, 1953 |
| examples of censorship in 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 history: Half the Battle Robert Mackay, 2002 How well did civilian morale stand up to the pressures of total war and what factors were important to it? This book rejects contentions that civilian morale fell a long way short of the favourable picture presented at the time and in hundreds of books and films ever since. While acknowledging that some negative attitudes and behaviour existed-panic and defeatism, ration-cheating and black-marketeering-it argues that these involved a very small minority of the population. In fact, most people behaved well, and this should be the real measure of civilian morale, rather than the failing of the few who behaved badly. The book shows that although before the war, the official prognosis was pessimistic, measures to bolster morale were taken nevertheless, in particular with regard to protection against air raids. An examination of indicative factors concludes that moral fluctuated but was in the main good, right to the end of the war. In examining this phenomenon, due credit is accorded to government policies for the maintenance of morale, but special emphasis is given to the 'invisible chain' of patriotic feeling that held the nation together during its time of trial. |
| examples of censorship in 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 history: The Use of Censorship in the Enlightenment Mogens Lærke, 2009 The ambition is of this volume to study the role censorship played in the intellectual culture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, how it was implemented, and how it affected the development philosophy and literary writing. It contains contributions by intellectual historians, philosophers and literary theorists. The first section studies how Enlightenment thinkers were submitted to censorship, in particular the German Spinozists, Pierre Bayle, and the French Encylopedists. The second section on the institutional aspects of censorship contains an analysis of the breakdown of censorship in England around 1640 and a discussion of the impact of censorship on philosophy in the Netherlands. The final section studies the stand three Enlightenment thinkers, namely John Toland, Denis Diderot, and G. W. Leibniz, took on the issue of censorship. |
| examples of censorship in 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 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 history: The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures Carlos Rojas, Andrea Bachner, 2016-07-28 With over forty original essays, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures offers an in-depth engagement with the current analytical methodologies and critical practices that are shaping the field in the twenty-first century. Divided into three sections--Structure, Taxonomy, and Methodology--the volume carefully moves across approaches, genres, and forms to address a rich range topics that include popular culture in Late Qing China, Zhang Guangyu's Journey to the West in Cartoons, writings of Southeast Asian migrants in Taiwan, the Chinese Anglophone Novel, and depictions of HIV/AIDS in Chu T'ien-wen's Notes of a Desolate Man. |
| examples of censorship in 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 history: Censorship Philip Steele, 1999 One in a series of books on some of today's most controversial issues, this book examines all kinds of controls that have been imposed on communications, from the first emperor of China who had his critics buried alive, to new laws in Europe and North America relating to the Internet. It raises questions about secrecy and privacy, commercial and political power, moral and religious judgements, and artistic freedom. This series aims to encourage the reader to reach informed and considered opinions. |
| examples of censorship in history: Free Speech Jacob Mchangama, 2022-02-08 “The best history of free speech ever written and the best defense of free speech ever made.” —P.J. O’Rourke Hailed as the “first freedom,” free speech is the bedrock of democracy. But it is a challenging principle, subject to erosion in times of upheaval. Today, in democracies and authoritarian states around the world, it is on the retreat. In Free Speech, Jacob Mchangama traces the riveting legal, political, and cultural history of this idea. Through captivating stories of free speech’s many defenders—from the ancient Athenian orator Demosthenes and the ninth-century freethinker al-Rāzī, to the anti-lynching crusader Ida B. Wells and modern-day digital activists—Mchangama reveals how the free exchange of ideas underlies all intellectual achievement and has enabled the advancement of both freedom and equality worldwide. Yet the desire to restrict speech, too, is a constant, and he explores how even its champions can be led down this path when the rise of new and contrarian voices challenge power and privilege of all stripes. Meticulously researched and deeply humane, Free Speech demonstrates how much we have gained from this principle—and how much we stand to lose without it. |
| examples of censorship in history: Cato's Letters John Trenchard, 1748 |
| examples of censorship in 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 history: Interpreting Censorship in Canada Allan C. Hutchinson, Klaus Petersen, 1999-01-01 Socially organized activity cannot occur without censorship. Going beyond ideological arguments, this collections of essays explores the extent of censorship in Canada today, the forms censorship takes, and the interests it serves. |
| examples of censorship in 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 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 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 history: Royal Censorship of Books in Eighteenth-century France Raymond Birn, 2012 Rather than envision themselves as agents of state-sponsored repression, the royal book censors of eighteenth-century France wished, through their reports and decisions, to guide the literary traffic of the Enlightenment and expand public awareness of progressive thought. |
| examples of censorship in 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 history: Irish Film Censorship Kevin Rockett, 2004 This book maps the history of Irish film censorship from its origins in the 1910s, through to the all-encompassing Censorship of Films Act 1923, the more liberal implementation of screening policies from the late 1960s onwards, and present-day concerns about media proliferation and distribution. Its main focus is on the 1920-70 period, when Irish film censors banned 3,000 films and cut an additional 10,000. The role of political censorship and its effect on television and cinema is examined, as are the more contemporary issues of video classification and debates around the internet and child pornography. Through the examination of over 18,000 of the censors decisions, Kevin Rockett provides an invaluable insight into the cultural geography of Ireland. - Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2005 |
| examples of censorship in 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 history: Aurangzeb Audrey Truschke, 2018 Aurangzeb Alamgir (r. 1658-1707), the sixth Mughal emperor, is widely reviled in India today. ... While many continue to accept the storyline peddled by colonial-era thinkers--that Aurangzeb, a Muslim, was a Hindu-loathing bigot--there is an untold side to him as a man who strove to be a just, worthy Indian king. |
| examples of censorship in history: The Naked Communist Willard Cleon Skousen, 1961 |
| examples of censorship in history: The Censors Luisa Valenzuela, 1992 The only bilingual collection of fiction by Luisa Valenzuela. This selection of stories from Clara, Strange things happen here, and Open door delve into the personal and political realities under authoritarian rule. |
| examples of censorship in 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. |
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the IFC had listed his actions as censorship. The case was eventually settled by the IFC inserting a sentence that noted Mr. Warman’s definition of censorship on the Censorship in BC: A …
Examples Of Censorship In American History
the history of censorship in the media discusses seven prominent cases of media censorship and presents a chronological history of twenty eight media censorship court cases since 1812 The …
Restrictions on online freedom of expression in China
Mar 17, 2021 · government’s model of internet control, censorship and surveillance remain unique to China. — In Asia more broadly, the reasons for tight controls on internet freedoms are …
Children’s Book Banning, Censorship and Human Rights
Censorship of information that children and youth may access is nothing new, as some materials have been deemed forbidden for centuries. However, the current political environment in the …
RETHINKING CENSORSHIP: A CASE STUDY OF …
2) to studying media censorship and criticised it for “isolat[ing] censorship practices from their broader social and historical conditions of existence and effectivity” (4). If we are to
FEATURE A History of Censorship in the United States
A History of Censorship in the United States Author _ Jennifer Elaine Steele (jennifer.e.steele@usm.edu), Assistant Professor, School of ... there are many examples of …
Censorship of History in France and the Netherlands (1945 …
Censorship of History in France and the Netherlands (1945-2014) cases in history-related issues as in France.1 In the post-1945 period, at least twenty-nine history-related defamation cases …
Censorship as a Vocation: The Institutions, Practices, and …
Censorship is enigmatic, the antithesis in so many respects of our vocation-al beings as intellectuals. In fact, it is fair to say that the censor is the anti-intellectual. As one of our peers …
Of Book Censorship - milibraries.org
Censorship: The broad term for suppression, erasure, or removal of any parts of a book, movie, play, or other work deemed “inappropriate,” offensive, or politically unacceptable. Book …
RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH AND CENSORSHIP: A …
10 HelenFreshwater, "Towards aRedefinition of Censorship" in Beate Muller (ed.), Censorship andCultural Regulationinthe ModernAge 225-245 (Rodopi,New York, 2004). 11 Richard Burt …
Scrutinized Art: The Many Faces of Visual Art Censorship
Some Censorship or Pro-censorship Activity in Art History Ancient Times-The depiction of God or Buddha is forbidden in Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism. Substitutes include footprints, a hand or …
CENSORSHIP IN BERLIN AND VIENNA DURING THE - JSTOR
CENSORSHIP IN BERLIN AND VIENNA DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR: A COMPARATIVE VIEW PreuBen: Freiziigigkeit mit Maulkorb. Oster-reich: Isolierzelle, in der man schreien darf. …
Roundtable Series on the Worldwide Censorship of History …
restrict teaching and discussion of race, racism, gender and United States history in K-12 schools, higher education, and state agencies and institutions. Three months later, in early April, the …
Book Banning Bans the Future: The Negative Effects of Book …
The American history of book banning is much more recent and focuses on the information made available to students. Based on a system of criteria and ... the tragedy of self-censorship. For …
Libraries and the Ethics of Censorship - Taylor & Francis Online
The term ‘censorship’ is notoriously difficult to define. Although censorship is often seen as ‘an enduring feature of all human communities’ (Jansen 1988, 4), the concept is fluid. Even a legal …
Freedom of Speech and Press: Exceptions to the First …
Freedom of Speech and Press: Exceptions to the First Amendment Congressional Research Service 3 own home.”10 However, there is no constitutional right to provide obscene material …
Commission and Omission of History in Occupied Japan …
editing of the war’s history was exacted in two distinct ways: commission (new and altered narratives, change in focus, etcetera) and omission (censorship, suppression, deletion, …
The Impact of Media Censorship: Evidence from a Field …
quo censorship, or to a treatment condition in which they are given tools to bypass Internet censorship for free for 18 months.2 A subset of the treated students also receive temporary …
Banning Books or Banning BIPOC? - Northwestern University
Jul 7, 2022 · censorship. This Essay examines why current book bans targeting critical race theory are content-based restrictions that necessarily violate the First Amendment. It explores …
Censorship and Intolerance in Medieval England - Loyola …
CENSORSHIP AND INTOLERANCE IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND . ... taught civics and history, and, later, shared her love of books and music with me. I hope I am able to live up to these …
Scholarly Commons - Ouachita Baptist University
Throughout history, books have been banned and suppressed due to the beliefs of the times. As society changes, many books that were once banned become acceptable and many ... Two …
Mill and Censorship - JSTOR
History of Philosophy Quarterly Volume 1, Number 4, October 1984 MILL AND CENSORSHIP Nanette Funk MILL'S argument against censorship in Chapter Two of On Liberty1 is one of the …
Book Censorship and Its Threat to Critical Inquiry in Social …
Examples of Book Censorship and Its Stifling of Critical Inquiry in Social Studies Education. Here, two examples of recently censored children’s books in the United States are provided. The …
Fahrenheit 451: A history of censorship - PBworks
Explore these sites to look at censorship issues that are in the news today. These questions are designed to guide your thinking for the essay you will write in Part III. I will not be collecting …
Censorship and National Security: Information Control in the …
established upon the outbreak of war as a nodal point for press censorship and the issue of official announcements. The Ministry’s Censorship Division was established on 30 August …
A Study of Self-Censorship by School Librarians
censorship by a school librarian involves making collection management choices on the basis of avoiding conflict with administrators, parents, or colleagues. Self-censorship decisions are …
The end of history: censorship and libraries - bibalex.org
The end of history: censorship and libraries – Alex Byrne 31/03/2004 4 manuscripts of those they destroyed - thereby creating an archive of unacceptable literary works which was preserved for …
Film censorship in Malaysia: Key issues and challenges of the …
concerns about the extent to which the censorship system unduly restricts the creative freedom of filmmakers. A few examples are illustrative of the problems faced by the industry: a. The …
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, …
The Role of Communist Censorship in Altering Romanian …
Censorship therefore is not a phenomenon specific to communist regimes. Romania had its fair share of censorship before the Soviet Army entered the country in 1944. The Church was …
Index Librorum Prohibitorum - UNC Greensboro
A Brief History of Early Church Censorship Although the official Index Librorum Prohibitorum did not appear until the sixteenth century, the origin of censorship in the Catholic Church can be …
RESISTANCE TO THE CENSORSHIP OF HISTORICAL …
Published as: Antoon De Baets, “Resistance to the Censorship of Historical Thought in the Twentieth Century,” in: Sølvi Sogner, ed., Making Sense of Global History: The 19th …
TAXONOMY OF CONCEPTS RELATED TO THE CENSORSHIP …
suspension. Censorship has a backfire effect and the study of censorship is itself one of the manifestations of that effect. In this chapter, we limit our attention to one particular field of …
THE CENSORSHIP OF TELEVISION
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A MANUAL FOR ART CENSORSHIP - National Coalition …
A kind of censorship exists in democratic countries, for instance, that is clearly distinct from the censorship imposed by overtly repressive regimes. Censorship is always context specific, …
THE ABUSE OF HISTORY Antoon De Baets - Concerned …
censorship of history was also centred on the basic notion of legitimation. See De Baets, Censorship, pp. 1-36. Essays by F.W. Nietzsche and W. B. Gallie carrying the phrase ‘the use …
22 YEARS AGO - SAGE Journals
and censorship Written in 1972 following the South African government's plans to abolish the right of appeal against decisions brought by the State Publications Control Board Removed from the …
A Model of Censorship, Propaganda, and Repression
We build on recent work on information design to explore the role of censorship, pro-paganda, and repression in autocratic rule. A government chooses a propaganda tech-nology and a level …
Contemporary Library Censorship Tactics: Reviewing the …
Censorship An attempt, formal or otherwise, to limit access to certain types of materials which would have otherwise met acquisition standards (Magi and Garnar 2015). ... Obscenity laws …
Prizefighting and the Birth of Movie Censorship - Yale …
Censorship scholars unanimously, but mistakenly, treat a 1907 ordinance of the City of Chicago as the first act of censorship in the United States. ... A HISTORY OF THE MOTION PICTURE …
ON CENSORSHIP IN A COLD WAR - The World Factbook
ON CENSORSHIP IN A COLD WAR Subject: ON CENSORSHIP IN A COLD WAR Keywords: ... Anynt&bsive=silehae as to the reali- ties we face in the world and, history is a negation of all …
AGNOTOLOGY - PhilPapers
neglected, for better or for worse, at various points in history. Swimming as we do in oceans of ignorance, examples could be multiplied ad infini tum. Contributors to this volume probe the …
Chapter 3 Snapshots from the History of Political Censorship …
Snapshots from the History of Political Censorship in Europe and United States of America “A brief history of censorship would by no means be brief.” [Atwood (2010), p. 59.] 3.1 Ancient …
Propaganda, misinformation, and histories of media …
Apr 15, 2021 · Propaganda has a history and so does research on it. In other words, the mechanisms and methods through which media scholars have sought to understand …
How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism but …
state. Shirk (2011) argues that the aim of censorship is to constrain the mobilization of political opposition, but her examples suggest that critical viewpoints are those that are suppressed. …
Introduction: Cultures of Protest in American Music
forms of protest do not. Although frequently subject to censorship, even amounting to prohibitions on performance or distribution, music is nonetheless seldom subject to stronger legal censure. …
PHILIPPINES REPORT - Global Freedom of Expression
the effect of self-censorship and chilling free speech and therefore may be cited again in the future as an indirect intrusion to free speech. In an environment overwhelmed day to day with attacks …
Censorship and History since 1945 - Concerned Historians
In order to define the censorship of history, borderline areas and demarcations with closely related concepts are scrutinized in detail. The presence of censorship in different modes, genres, …
THE DARK SIDE OF HISTORICAL WRITING: …
Censorship is the dark side of historical writing. Research into it yields many insights into the essence of historical writing itself. The reflections that follow represent the final conclusions …
FEATURE A History of Censorship in the United States
Censorship is often viewed as a violation of the First Amendment and the right to free speech. Freedom of speech is particularly pertinent to libraries, as it “encompasses not only a right to …
Varieties of Censorship: Revisionism in American History
When considering analyzing historical phenomena by researching censorship in early American history, I envisioned my students studying events through different perspectives, looking for …
Opinions Throughout History: Free Speech & Censorship
censorship, obscenity, fighting words, student speech, Dozens of primary and secondary sources, including court decisions, news reports, and legislation, are presented and examined. For …
Issue Brief: Educational Censorship in America
censorship measures that restrict honest, accurate, and inclusive examinations of American history. This censorship effort has had a chilling effect among educators, creating a climate of …
Fahrenheit 451: A history of censorship - PBworks
Each link takes you to a page that tells a small part of the story of Blacklisting in Hollywood in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s. You will need to look at several of the pages to get a complete …
Can Freedom Be Unlimited? Examples of Censorship in …
Middle Eastern states can be interpreted as forms of censorship, as it prohibits free choice to express personally chosen worldviews. This censorship rarely occurs by means of legal texts …
To Read or Not to Read: How Book Censorship Affects …
Dec 9, 2024 · example of censorship in recent history. Nazi students burned books that were labeled as “un-German” or not synchronized with German ideologies (Daniel 2). In America, …
THE ABUSE OF HISTORY Antoon De Baets - Concerned …
Throughout this essay, I have deliberately abstained from giving concrete examples of abuses. For many examples, see De Baets, Censorship.
Censorship, Intellectual Freedom, Librarianship and the …
Censorship of specific publications spurred librarians to take initial steps toward establishing a stand supporting intellectual freedom. Censorship, in this context, means not only the deletion …
A Worldwide View of Nation-state Internet Censorship
We per-formed a cross-sectional study of 70 countries during a one-year period, illuminating current online censorship trends. We then conducted a systematic study of prior work to …
Censorship of History in France and the Netherlands (1945 …
Censorship of History in France and the Netherlands (1945-2014) had shown his disagreement with French colonial attitudes by giving up his post at the Lycée Carnot and moving to the …
History of censorship and classification in Australia
From the 1960s, the censorship regime was significantly liberalised, moving from a model of censorship to a model of classification which enabled adults to make well-informed choices …
U.S. Censorship, Violence, and Moral Judgement in a …
In the eleven months before Soviet soldiers occupied Berlin, U.S. and Allied military press censors in Western Europe reviewed 163 million words of print and radio reportage.
How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism
“[Premier Wen] claimed that China’s leaders welcomed criticism expressed on the internet. It is ‘natural for that to happen’, he said. And yet he presides over a government that routinely …
Power, Freedom and the Censorship of History - Concerned …
In the specific field of history, censorship may be further disguised as pressure from the historical establishment, corporatism, political correctness on the campus, and rejection of theses and …
RESISTANCE TO THE CENSORSHIP OF HISTORICAL …
the following examples, based on data from more than 130 countries,6 demonstrate that there must be many who have resisted persecution and censorship either inside or outside …
How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism
“[Premier Wen] claimed that China’s leaders welcomed criticism expressed on the internet. It is ‘natural for that to happen’, he said. And yet he presides over a government that routinely …
Banned Books: Censorship, Ethics and Twentieth-Century …
By attending to the legal history of censorship, as well as the various grounds for censorship (e.g., obscenity, libel, sedition, blasphemy), we will restage longstanding debates over …
Censorship and History since 1945 - Concerned Historians
In order to define the censorship of history, borderline areas and demarcations with closely related concepts are scrutinized in detail. The presence of censorship in different modes, genres, …
THE DARK SIDE OF HISTORICAL WRITING: REFLECTIONS ON …
Censorship is the dark side of historical writing. Research into it yields many insights into the essence of historical writing itself. The reflections that follow represent the final conclusions …
FEATURE A History of Censorship in the United States
Censorship is often viewed as a violation of the First Amendment and the right to free speech. Freedom of speech is particularly pertinent to libraries, as it “encompasses not only a right to …
Varieties of Censorship: Revisionism in American History
When considering analyzing historical phenomena by researching censorship in early American history, I envisioned my students studying events through different perspectives, looking for …
Opinions Throughout History: Free Speech & Censorship
censorship, obscenity, fighting words, student speech, Dozens of primary and secondary sources, including court decisions, news reports, and legislation, are presented and examined. For …
Issue Brief: Educational Censorship in America
censorship measures that restrict honest, accurate, and inclusive examinations of American history. This censorship effort has had a chilling effect among educators, creating a climate of …
Fahrenheit 451: A history of censorship - PBworks
Each link takes you to a page that tells a small part of the story of Blacklisting in Hollywood in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s. You will need to look at several of the pages to get a complete …
Can Freedom Be Unlimited? Examples of Censorship in …
Middle Eastern states can be interpreted as forms of censorship, as it prohibits free choice to express personally chosen worldviews. This censorship rarely occurs by means of legal texts …
To Read or Not to Read: How Book Censorship Affects …
Dec 9, 2024 · example of censorship in recent history. Nazi students burned books that were labeled as “un-German” or not synchronized with German ideologies (Daniel 2). In America, …
THE ABUSE OF HISTORY Antoon De Baets - Concerned …
Throughout this essay, I have deliberately abstained from giving concrete examples of abuses. For many examples, see De Baets, Censorship.
Censorship, Intellectual Freedom, Librarianship and the …
Censorship of specific publications spurred librarians to take initial steps toward establishing a stand supporting intellectual freedom. Censorship, in this context, means not only the deletion …
A Worldwide View of Nation-state Internet Censorship
We per-formed a cross-sectional study of 70 countries during a one-year period, illuminating current online censorship trends. We then conducted a systematic study of prior work to …
Censorship of History in France and the Netherlands (1945 …
Censorship of History in France and the Netherlands (1945-2014) had shown his disagreement with French colonial attitudes by giving up his post at the Lycée Carnot and moving to the …
History of censorship and classification in Australia
From the 1960s, the censorship regime was significantly liberalised, moving from a model of censorship to a model of classification which enabled adults to make well-informed choices …
U.S. Censorship, Violence, and Moral Judgement in a Wartime …
In the eleven months before Soviet soldiers occupied Berlin, U.S. and Allied military press censors in Western Europe reviewed 163 million words of print and radio reportage.
How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism
“[Premier Wen] claimed that China’s leaders welcomed criticism expressed on the internet. It is ‘natural for that to happen’, he said. And yet he presides over a government that routinely …
Power, Freedom and the Censorship of History - Concerned …
In the specific field of history, censorship may be further disguised as pressure from the historical establishment, corporatism, political correctness on the campus, and rejection of theses and …
RESISTANCE TO THE CENSORSHIP OF HISTORICAL …
the following examples, based on data from more than 130 countries,6 demonstrate that there must be many who have resisted persecution and censorship either inside or outside tyrannical …
How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism
“[Premier Wen] claimed that China’s leaders welcomed criticism expressed on the internet. It is ‘natural for that to happen’, he said. And yet he presides over a government that routinely …
Banned Books: Censorship, Ethics and Twentieth-Century …
By attending to the legal history of censorship, as well as the various grounds for censorship (e.g., obscenity, libel, sedition, blasphemy), we will restage longstanding debates over …
