The Censorship Continues to Sail: The Relationship Between Political Ideology and Book Challenging
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https://doi.org/10.47611/jsrhs.v11i3.2690Keywords:
book banning, book challenging, high school, libraries, literary merit, political ideology.Abstract
The aim of this study was to explore the extent to which political ideology affects the quality of the book challenge process, with a special focus on the motivations for a challenge and push in political agenda. The approach will be a qualitative one, involving the use of open-ended questions and interviews to extract subjective responses. This approach was taken to encourage authentic answers and data. It concludes with an analysis of the data that reveals that there is a conservative attitude in recent initiation of book challenges.Downloads
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