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2018
Volume 100, Issue 5
  • ISSN: 0360-9170
  • E-ISSN: 1943-2402
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Abstract

This essay explores the politics of white backlash and the laws enacted across the United States that seek to censor books and discussions surrounding issues of race, racism, and gender in elementary classrooms.

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