I Read the Most Banned Books in America

For the past couple of years, book banning has been on the rise in the United States, and I have had enough. Today, I will be going over the troublesome history of book banning, and reading the most banned books in the US. I will discuss whether or not they should be banned (no), and why book banning is a deeper, and more sinister issue than it is painted as. If you have read any of these books, let me know if you think they should be banned. Let me know what you think about this video, and I hope you all enjoy it!

✓Sources✓
➤Article about “Maus” and how it ties into the current crisis https://www.thedailystar.net/star-lit...
➤The Telegraph Art Speigelman interview https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/wha...
➤Art Speigelman 2014 statement in current crisis https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2014...
➤PEN America Art Speigelman interview https://pen.org/art-spiegelman-on-ban...
➤PEN America 2023 Banned Books Update https://pen.org/report/banned-in-the-...
➤ALA book banning polling https://www.ala.org/news/2022/03/larg...
➤Publisher's Weekly “This Book is Gay Author” on book being banned https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/b...
➤NPR George M. Johnson interview https://www.npr.org/2022/10/25/113043...
➤Global Citizen George M. Johnson article https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/cont...
➤NPR interview with Maia Kobabe https://www.npr.org/2023/01/04/114686...
➤NPR Maia Kobabe essay https://www.npr.org/2023/01/04/114687...
➤Holocaust Museum on book bannings https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/conten...
➤Maia Kobabe doesn’t recommend book for kids https://wpde.com/news/nation-world/ge...
➤Times The Bible has been censored https://www.grunge.com/629141/times-t...
➤America’s first banned book https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles...
➤The world’s first trans clinic https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...
➤Books banning’s in history https://www.freedomtoread.ca/resource...
➤PBS- “The Bluest Eye” banned https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexpe...
➤ALA state of america’s libraries report 2022 https://www.ala.org/news/state-americ...
➤Intellectual freedom blog “The Bluest Eye” banned https://www.oif.ala.org/the-legacy-of...
➤Roxane Gay Toni Morrison article https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/09/op...
➤”Don’t Say Gay” bills across the country https://www.edweek.org/policy-politic...
➤Tablet interview with Art Speigelman https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/ar...
➤AP “Gnderqueer” most challenged book https://apnews.com/article/maia-kabob...

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