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How Red State Book Bans Affect California Writers
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Length:
24 minutes
Released:
Apr 17, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Oakland children's author Maggie Tokuda-Hall refused an offer from Scholastic to license her book "Love in the Library" when the publishing giant asked her to remove the word "racism" and historical context about incarceration camps for Japanese Americans during World War II. She tells host Cecilia Lei that efforts to whitewash history violate adults' "moral obligation" to tell kids the truth. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod
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Released:
Apr 17, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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