At the time, MacGibbon said that the sexual assault and violence in both books “are not topics for 15-, 16- and 17-year-olds to be reading about or discussing.”Īpparently the review committee agreed regarding The Bluest Eye, but not on The Color Purple which may still given as an alternate assignment. (East Wake High is one building divided into four schools: Engineering Systems Health Science Integrated Technology and Arts, Education, and Global Studies.) The two novels were challenged in April by Dawn MacGibbon after a friend of her daughter was assigned to read them in AP English. Both books will remain available in the school library.Ī review committee recommended removing The Bluest Eye from the curriculum in the School of Engineering Systems at East Wake High School in July, but the ban was not reported in local news until late August.
Teachers may still assign The Color Purple, but must get signed consent from a parent or guardian of any student who reads it. Graphic Novels: Suggestions for LibrariansĪbout four months after Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple were challenged as reading assignments for Advanced Placement English at a high school in Wendell, North Carolina, we learned this week that Morrison’s novel was ultimately banned from the school’s curriculum.Working With Libraries! A Handbook For Comics Creators.Know Your Rights: Student Rights Fact Sheet.Adding Graphic Novels to Your Library or Classroom Collection.Raising a Reader! How Comics & Graphic Novels Can Help Your Kids Love To Read!.Kirkpatrick, NY State Court of Appeals (1973) Obscenity Case Files: Joseph Burstyn, Inc.Des Moines Independent Community School District Obscenity Case Files: United States v.Pacifica Foundation (George Carlin’s Seven Dirty Words) Obscenity Case Files: People of New York v.
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