[5140] in Central_America
Re: New quotes for Thu Oct 21
sorokin@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sorokin@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Oct 21 14:31:20 1993
THE COLOR PURPLE, by Alice Walker.
Considered inappropriate because of its "troubling ideas about race relations,
man's relationship to God, African history and human sexuality."
Challenged by Oakland, California, high school honors class, 1984;
rejected for purchase by Hayward, California, school trustees.
What I liked better was this one:
THE COLOR PURPLE, by Alice Walker.
Challenged in the Souderton, Penn. Area School District (1992) as
appropriate reading for tenth graders because it is "smut".
