From dda@wwco.com Fri Jul 28 10:12:43 2000 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id KAA72962 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 10:12:41 -0700 Received: from ns.wwco.com (64-51-65-130.client.dsl.net [64.51.65.130]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id KAA25348 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 10:12:40 -0700 Received: from localhost (dda@localhost) by ns.wwco.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA03437 for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2000 13:12:38 -0400 Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 13:12:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Danny Adams To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Modern-day Censorship In-Reply-To: <000f01bff8b1$1ea6a200$1049eb84@carsonrtec.ohiou.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII At the risk of getting into a nitpicky discussion of dictionary discussions for "banned" and "censored," I would disagree with this. Though this has been made almost moot with online purchasing, it wasn't all that long ago when "the money to pay for them or access to a library that has them" was far easier said than done. Having grown up in a very rural area I felt / feel the subject of "banning" quite keenly--be it censorship by the community or the federal government, censorship is still censorship (though on the other hand I would argue that parents definitely have the right to protest the school curriculums for their under-18 children). I hope any folks agreeing with Scott aren't the same ones who got so outraged at Poseidon getting involuntarily dressed up. :) Danny Adams (owner of a copy of Mein Kampf, among lots of other things) On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Scott Carson wrote: > People who complain about "censorship" ought, at the very least, to inquire > into what "censorship" actually is. None of these books has, in fact, been > "banned" anywhere in the US during the 1990s--they have all been > commercially available to anyone who has the money to pay for them or access > to a library that has them. The fact that some school district, or some > bookstore, or some local library, has refused to carry a particular item > does not mean that that item has been "banned" or "censored". Although > Houghton Mifflin has controlled the distribution of new copies of Mein Kampf > for some time, one can even get that title if one so desires. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Danny Adams > To: > Sent: Friday, 28 July, 2000 11:36 > Subject: Modern-day Censorship > > > > > > Some months ago, several members of this forum asked if I would > > post a list I compiled in October of 1998 of all the books that had been > > banned somewhere in the U.S. during the 1990's. I replied that I would as > > soon as I figured out where it had slipped off to; all this time > > afterwards, I finally found it stuck in an old gradebook. > > > > There is, alas, at least a little bit of classical content to this > > message. Since October of 1998, you can also add each of the four volumes > > in the Harry Potter series. And, finally, when I was compiling this litany > > I didn't have the time or space to include locations (uually several > > places for each) or reasons for the bans (ditto), but if any in particular > > strike your curiousity, then e-mail me and if I remember the whys I'll > > pass them along. (I should warn you, though, that the "whys" very often > > are confusing and reflect the fact that the book was not actually > > read...such as Brave New World "glorifying" prolific sex.) > > > > On a final note, no one region of the U.S. had a lock on banning > > in the last decade. The South and New England ran almost neck in neck, as > > I recall, and the Western U.S. was close behind. > > > > BOOKS THAT HAVE BEEN BANNED SOMEWHERE IN AMERICA DURING THE 1990'S > > > > The American Heritage Dictionary > > The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X and Haley > > Beloved, Morrison > > The Bible > > Blubber, Blume > > Brave New World, Huxley > > Bridge to Terabithia, Paterson > > The Bridges of Madison County, Waller > > The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer > > Carrie, King > > Catcher in the Rye, Salinger > > Changing Bodies, Changing Lives, Bell > > The Children's Hour, Hellman > > The Chocolate War, Cormier > > Christine, King > > Clan of the Cave Bear, Auel > > The Color Purple, Walker > > Cujo, King > > The Crucible, Miller > > A Day No Pigs Would Die, Peck > > The Decameron, Boccaccio > > The Diary of Anne Frank, Frank (both original and unabridged > > editions) > > Fanny Hill, Cleland > > The Floatplane Notebooks, Edgerton > > Forever, Blume > > Funk and Wagnalls Dictionary (various editions) > > The Giver, Lowry > > Go Tell it on the Mountain, Baldwin > > The Goosebumps series, Stine > > The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck > > Grendel, Gardner > > Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales, the Brothers Grimm > > The Handmaid's Tale, Atwood > > How to Eat Fried Worms, Rockwell > > Huckleberry Finn, Twain > > I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Angelous > > In the Night Kitchen, Sendak > > James and the Giant Peach, Dahl > > The Joy Luck Club, Tan > > The Kama Sutra, Vatsyayana > > The Koran > > Lady Chatterly's Lover, Lawrence > > Leaves of Grass, Whitman > > A Light in the Attic, Silverstein > > Little House in the Big Woods, Wilder > > Lolita, Nabokov > > Lord of the Flies, Golding > > Lysistrata, Aristophanes > > Madame Bovary, Flaubert > > The Martian Chronicles, Bradbury > > Mein Kampf, Hitler > > Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary > > A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare > > Moby Dick, Melville > > Moll Flanders, DeFoe > > More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Schwartz > > My Brother Sam is Dead, Collier and Collier > > Naked Lunch, Burroughs > > Native Son, Wright > > Night Chills, Koontz > > 1984, Orwell > > Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck > > One-Hundred Years of Solitude, Marquez > > The 1,001 Arabian Nights > > The Origin of Species, Darwin > > The Pigman, Zindel > > A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Joyce > > Private Parts, Stern > > Robinson Crusoe, DeFoe > > Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare > > The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne > > Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Schwartz > > A Separate Peace, Knowles > > Silas Marner, Eliot > > 1601, Twain > > Slaughterhouse-Five, Vonnegut > > Song of Myself, Whitman > > Then Again, Maybe I Won't, Blume > > To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee > > Tom Sawyer, Twain > > Twelfth Night, Shakespeare > > Ulysses, Joyce > > Uncle Tom's Cabin, Stowe > > The Witches, Dahl > > A Wrinkle in Time, L'Engle > > > > Danny Adams > > > > > .