Asked to Delete References to Racism From Her Book, an Author Refused https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/06/books/scholastic-book-racism-maggie-tokuda-hall.html?smid=tw-share
Asked to Delete References to Racism From Her Book, an Author Refused

The case, involving Scholastic, led to an outcry among authors and became an example of how the culture wars behind a surge in book banning in schools has reached publishers.

The New York Times
@jeffjarvis I wanted to read the article you posted, but it is pay walled.

@EddiKat @jeffjarvis

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12ft

@danritz @EddiKat @jeffjarvis
I copied the article text from behind the paywall and then viewed it in the clipboard previewer. The photo captions get bumped up against the article text but it's very readable.
Edit: Android 13

@danritz @EddiKat @jeffjarvis

12 foot ladder doesn't work for big publishers anymore. They all caught on to what it is, and ban connection requests from it.

@atatassault @EddiKat @jeffjarvis

Dang. Sorry. I guess I haven’t been using it enough to notice that.

Author Maggie Tokuda-Hall Takes a Stand Against Censorship and the “Deeply American Tradition of Racism” - Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internment

Maggie Tokuda-Hall shares her thoughts on Scholastic’s attempted censorship of her book, Love in the Library.

Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internment