The books aren’t banned, they’re just unavailable
...because some things just piss people off...
Tucson’s Unified School District, not wanting to lose state funding, removed certain writings from being readily available to students. Is it the money, or is it something else? Beneath the stated reason, is there a fear-driven motive? Is there a subconscious recognition that culture and “performance” are, in fact, linked, and that allowing “other” stories to be told and studied would enable “the others” to advance in society with a resultant disruption in the balance of power?
Here is a bit of “near-history” from when I was growing up in the sixties and early seventies. At that time, most of the Reds had either been killed off or were on reservations “out West”, the Yellows largely kept to themselves on
