The library will also make a selection of frequently challenged books available with no holds or wait times for all BPL cardholders, available through the library's online catalog or Libby app. The titles include: The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta, Tomboy by Liz Prince, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong, and Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison
...The American Library Association’s Office of Intellectual Freedom counted more than 700 complaints last year, the most since it began keeping records more than 20 years ago.
The Streisand effect tends to happen when a secret is made public and then there's an effort to bury that secret. So I would say there's absolutely been a Streisand effect here, but just in the other direction. You can find countless videos like this [1], where a parent simply reads from books made available by a school, at a school board meeting. School boards largely responded by simply trying to bury these things - enter, Streisand.
It's not a secret that books like these exist, you can find a million of them with a single search. But the fact that they were on school shelves is certainly something that came as a huge surprise to the overwhelming majority of parents.
Politicians studying history and modeling policy after Stalin.
One book banned is a tragedy and news worthy, but banning dozens, hundreds, thousands of book with a common theme is a statistic and just a state's right issue.
Why am I not hearing and seeing more about the books that were banned?
Is it no longer a thing?