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Artist: Rudolfo Anaya

Year: 2013

Date of Action: December 2013

Region: North America

Location: Driggs, Idaho

Subject: Explicit Sexuality

Medium: Literature

Confronting Bodies: Teton County School District

Description of Artwork: Bless Me, Ultima is an award-winning, best-selling novel by one of the recognized founders of Chicano literature. It is a coming of age story for a young boy and his mentor, Ultima. The novel focuses on the young boy's spiritual transformation amidst cultural and societal changes in the American Southwest during World War II.

The Incident: Superintendent Monte Woolstenhulme attempted to ban the book due to its profanity and sexual content.

Results of Incident: NCAC wrote a letter to the school district and shortly thereafter the ban was revoked.

Source:
• http://www.tetonvalleynews.net/bless-me-ultima-reinstated-at-board-meeting/youtube_bc19cd0a-6382-11e3-b291-001a4bcf887a.html

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 |date_of_action=December 2013
 |location=Driggs, Idaho
-|description_of_content=''Bless Me, Ultima'' is an award-winning, best-selling novel by one of the recognized founders of Chicano literature. In addition to being one of 12 American novels recommended for The National Endowment for the Arts “Big Read” initiative, the book appears on the International Baccalaureate and Advanced Placement(AP) lists and has appeared on the AP exam four times in the last ten years. The book is frequently taught in high school classrooms as a way to expand students’ worldview and introduce them to an American experience that is perhaps new to some students and immensely relatable to others. It is a coming of age story for a young boy and his mentor, Ultima.
+|description_of_content=''Bless Me, Ultima'' is an award-winning, best-selling novel by one of the recognized founders of Chicano literature.  It is a coming of age story for a young boy and his mentor, Ultima. The novel focuses on the young boy's spiritual transformation amidst cultural and societal changes in the American Southwest during World War II.
 |description_of_incident=Superintendent Monte Woolstenhulme attempted to ban the book due to its profanity and sexual content.
 |description_of_result=NCAC wrote a letter to the school district and shortly thereafter the ban was revoked.