English · Boston College
According to Harvard historian and educator, Timothy Patrick McCarthy, "These are treacherous times in education. We are living in an age of bullies where schools are once again in the crosshairs of the culture wars. In this context, to fight the forces of bigotry and censorship is as risky as it is urgent." In this course we will examine some of the political and social movements over the last decades to ban certain books and topics in American classrooms. Our primary focus will be on reading the banned books and developing approaches to how they might be taught in a variety of educat
