Banned Books: Author Ashley Hope Pérez on finding humanity in the 'darkness'
Ashley Hope Pérez published Out of Darkness in 2015 to critical acclaim. The novel re-contextualized contemporary issues of race providing a historical framework in a not-so-post-racial America.
by Pilar Galvan
Dec 14, 2022
3 minutes
This discussion with Ashley Hope Pérez is part of a series of interviews with — and essays by — authors who are finding their books being challenged and banned in the U.S.
Ashley Hope Pérez is the author of the award-winning Out of Darkness, a young adult novel that has faced challenges and bans in the U.S. in recent years.
Pérez — who is a comparative literature professor at The Ohio State University in 2015, a year that invoked a national conversation surrounding issues of race, environmental racism, racialized violence and police brutality.
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