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|region=North America | |region=North America | ||
|artist=Toni Morrison | |artist=Toni Morrison | ||
|subject=Explicit Sexuality | |subject=Explicit Sexuality | ||
|confronting_bodies=Indiana library, Arizona school, School in Colorado; The Bluest Eye | |confronting_bodies=Indiana library, Arizona school, School in Colorado; The Bluest Eye | ||
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The novel is on the reading list of the AP curriculum in Broomfield, Colorado. Parents concerned about the book's explicit description of racism, incest, and child molestation, has caused some parents to write a letter as a way to take action to have it removed. Others still think it should be left on the reading list though because it exposes students to people and lives that they have nothing in common with. | The novel is on the reading list of the AP curriculum in Broomfield, Colorado. Parents concerned about the book's explicit description of racism, incest, and child molestation, has caused some parents to write a letter as a way to take action to have it removed. Others still think it should be left on the reading list though because it exposes students to people and lives that they have nothing in common with. | ||
|description_of_result=The book has not been banned in Indiana or Alabama, and it has been restricted in the 11th grade AP curriculum in Colorado. | |description_of_result=The book has not been banned in Indiana or Alabama, and it has been restricted in the 11th grade AP curriculum in Colorado. | ||
|image=Bluest Eye.jpg | |||
|source=http://bannedbooks.world.edu/2013/09/10/banned-books-awareness-the-bluest-eye/ | |source=http://bannedbooks.world.edu/2013/09/10/banned-books-awareness-the-bluest-eye/ | ||
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