Howl, and other poems by Allen Ginsberg

 

Element	Value	Value Standard
dc.title	Howl, and other poems
dc.creator	Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997
dc.subject	Political poetry, American; Beat generation–Poetry; Homosexuality	LCSH
dc.description	“Howl” is a poem written by Allen Ginsberg in 1955, published as part of his 1956 collection of poetry titled Howl and Other Poems, and dedicated to Carl Solomon. Poems include: Howl — Footnote To Howl — A Supermarket in California — Transcription of Organ Music — Sunflower Sutra — America — In the Baggage Room at Greyhound ; Earlier Poems: An Asphodel — Song — Wild Orphan — In Back of the Real.
dc.publisher	City Lights Books
dc.date	1956	W3CDTF
dc.type	Text	DCMIType
dc.format	Paperback book; 44 pages; 16 cm
dc.identifier	ISBN: 9780872860179
dc.source	http://www.amazon.com/Other-Poems-Lights-Pocket-Poets/dp/0872860175/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1462205651&sr=1-1&keywords=howl+and+other+poems
dc.language	en-US	RFC4646
dc.relation	Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg; originally published by City Lights Books; San Francisco: 1956.
dc.rights	Allen Ginsberg

Ginsberg’s famous poems were criticized for their depiction of madness, sexuality, and political protest, among other reasons. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, of City Lights Books, was arrested and charged with publishing and selling obscene literature. He was found not guilty.

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/jun/02/featuresreviews.guardianreview21

 

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Element	Value	Value Standard
dc.title	Their Eyes Were Watching God
dc.creator	Hurston, Zora Neale, 1891-1960
dc.subject	Racism; Marriage-Fiction; Southern States; African American Women	LCSH
dc.description	An extended flashback as the main character, Janie, tells the story of her life. She goes through marriages to three different men, the last of which was finally a happy one, while dealing with violence and racism as an African-American woman in the early 1900’s South.
dc.publisher	Harper Perennial Modern Classics
dc.contributor	Henry Louis Gates Jr.; Edwidge Danticat
dc.date	05-30-2006	W3CDTF
dc.type	Text	DCMIType
dc.format	Paperback book, 219 pages, 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.2 in.
dc.identifier	ISBN-13 978-0061120060
dc.source	http://www.amazon.com/Their-Eyes-Were-Watching-God/dp/0061120065/ref=sr_1_1_twi_pap_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1461872392&sr=1-1&keywords=their+eyes+were+watching+god+book
dc.language	en-US	RFC4646
dc.relation	Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston; originally published by J. B. Lippincott; Philadelphia: September 18, 1937
dc.rights	Zora Neale Hurston

Janie tells a friend the story of her life and struggles throughout her three marriages, beginning when she is sixteen and ending in her forties after losing her third husband. This is generally banned from high schools due to language and sexually explicit content, as well as some violence between Janie and her husbands.

http://www.ala.org/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/classics/reasons

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Element	Value	Value Standard
dc.title	Gone With the Wind
dc.creator	Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949
dc.subject	Coming of age- Fiction; Slavery;  Slavery in Literature; United States–History–Civil War, 1861-1865	LCSH
dc.description	In this “epic novel of love and war,” Scarlett O’Hara, the spoiled daughter of a plantation owner, must survive on her own and find a way out of poverty in the Civil War South.
dc.publisher	Macmillan
dc.date	1964	W3CDTF
dc.type	Text	DCMIType
dc.format	Hardcover book, 833 pages, 8.5 x 5.9 x 1.9 in.
dc.identifier	ISBN-13 978-0025853904
dc.source	http://www.amazon.com/Gone-Wind-Margaret-Mitchell/dp/B000GISOGS/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1461871698&sr=8-5&keywords=gone+with+the+wind
dc.language	en-US	RFC4646
dc.relation	Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell; originally published by Macmillan Publishers; New York: June 10, 1936
dc.rights	Margaret Mitchell

Gone with the Wind follows the struggles of Scarlett O’Hara during and after the Civil War, as well as her on-again, off-again relationships with Ashley Wilkes and Rhett Butler. Many people have the opinion that Gone with the Wind should be banned due to racial slurs, as well as the underlying racism in both the way slaves were treated by the characters and portrayed by the narrative.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/2011/0928/20-banned-books-that-may-surprise-you/Gone-with-the-Wind-by-Margaret-Mitchell

https://prezi.com/kdkcv_ww67je/why-is-gone-with-the-wind-banned-and-challenged/

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Element	Value	Value Standard
dc.title	To Kill a Mockingbird
dc.creator	Lee, Harper, 1926-2016
dc.subject	Racism, Lawyers, Fathers and daughters, Race relations	LCSH
dc.description	A young girl experiences prejudice in the South as her father, a lawyer, defends a black man wrongly accused of a crime.
dc.publisher	Harper Perennial Modern Classics
dc.date	03-01-2004	W3CDTF
dc.type	Text	DCMIType
dc.format	Paperback book, 385 pages, 1 x 5.2 x 8.2 in.
dc.identifier	ISBN-13 978-0060935467
dc.source	http://www.amazon.com/Kill-Mockingbird-Harper-Lee/dp/0060935464/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
dc.language	en-US	RFC4646
dc.relation	To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee; originally published by Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia: July 11, 1960
dc.rights	Harper Lee

 

To Kill a Mockingbird shows a young girl learning about prejudice and racism for the first time when her father, a lawyer in their small southern town, defends a black man wrongly accused of rape. It has been challenged or banned consistently since it came out for various reasons. The most common are vulgar language and sexual content, racial slurs, and the idea that it promotes institutionalized racism. Almost 60 years after it was first published, To Kill a Mockingbird remains one of the most commonly banned classic novels.

http://www.ala.org/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/classics/reasons

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/to-kill-a-mockingbird-remains-among-top-banned-classical-novels/

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

Element	Value	Value Standard
dc.title	The Absolutely True Diary of A Part-time Indian
dc.creator	Alexie, Sherman
dc.subject	Fiction – Native America, Fiction – Indian, Fiction – Reservation, Fiction – Teenage Boys, Fiction – Race relations, Fiction – alcoholism, Fiction – cartoonist
dc.description	Junior is 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.
dc.publisher	Little Brown Books for Young Readers
dc.contributor	Sherman Alexie and Ellen Forney – Illustrator
dc.date	September 12, 2007
dc.type	Text
dc.format	Hardcover, 240 pages, 5.8 x 0.9 x 8.5 inches
dc.identifier	978-0316013680	ISBN
dc.source	http://www.amazon.com/Absolutely-True-Diary-Part-Time-Indian/dp/0316013684/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1462129354&sr=1-1
dc.language	en-US
dc.relation	The Absolutely True Diary of A Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie, September 12, 2007
dc.rights	All rights reserved

Arnold Spirit, a goofy-looking dork with a decent jumpshot, spends his time lamenting life on the “poor-ass” Spokane Indian reservation, drawing cartoons (which accompany, and often provide more insight than, the narrative), and, along with his aptly named pal Rowdy, laughing those laughs over anything and nothing that affix best friends so intricately together. When a teacher pleads with Arnold to want more, to escape the hopelessness of the rez, Arnold switches to a rich white school and immediately becomes as much an outcast in his own community as he is a curiosity in his new one. He weathers the typical teenage indignations and triumphs like a champ but soon faces far more trying ordeals as his home life begins to crumble and decay amidst the suffocating mire of alcoholism on the reservation

From the Huffington Post on a school in Idaho that has banned the book:

The school board’s decision to seek an alternative book to convey “the cultural messages” of Alexie’s work came after complaints from parents that the book contained sexually charged material inappropriate for their children, was peppered with pejorative terms for women, people of various races and those with learning disabilities and mocked Christian beliefs.

Descriptions retrieved 01 May 2016 from: http://www.amazon.com/Absolutely-True-Diary-Part-Time-Indian/dp/0316013684/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1462129354&sr=1-1 and

Idaho bans native american book. Huffington Post. Retrieved 01 May 2016: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/04/idaho-bans-native-american-book_n_5094525.html

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Element	Value	Value Standard
dc.title	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
dc.creator	Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
dc.subject	Runaway children—Fiction; Fugitive slaves—Fiction; Friendship—Fiction; Race relations—Fiction; Mississippi River—Fiction	LCSH
dc.description	Huck Finn, trying to escape his abusive father, teams up with runaway slave Jim as they raft down the Mississippi River together in the 1840s.
dc.publisher	Dover Publications
dc.contributor	Mark Twain
dc.date	05-26-1994	W3CDTF
dc.type	Text	DCMIType
dc.format	Softcover book, 224 pages long, 0.8 x 5.2 x 8.5 in.
dc.identifier	ISBN-13 978-0486280615
dc.source	http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Huckleberry-Finn-Mark-Twain/dp/0486280616/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1461605489&sr=1-1&keywords=huckleberry+finn
dc.language	en-US	RFC4646
dc.relation	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain; originally published by Charles L. Webster and Co., New York: 1885
dc.coverage	1885-1994
dc.rights	All rights reserved

 

“The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” tells the story of Huck Finn, a white boy who runs away from his abusive father with Jim, a runaway slave. Together, the two travel down the Mississippi River on a raft, encountering racism and attitudes toward slavery and freedom in the American South of the 1840s. Despite its negative attitude toward slavery, the book has been frequently banned for racism and offensive language (Banned Books Week) due to Twain’s unflinching portrayal of 1840s Missouri and the realities of slavery.

 

Works cited: “Banned Books That Shaped America.” Bannedbooksweek.org. Web. 25 Apr. 2016. http://www.bannedbooksweek.org/censorship/bannedbooksthatshapedamerica