Little House, Big Problem: What To Do with “Classic” Books That Are Also Racist (SLJ)

Karen Clemmer 6/23/2010:45 AM

By Marva Hinton, May 28, 2020, School Library Journal.

Figuring out to how to handle classics that critics say haven’t aged well can be tough for librarians charged with putting together school collections. Students have been reading To Kill a Mockingbird, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and the “Little House” series for generations, and for many years, having these “classics” available in school libraries was a given. But today, some media specialists are questioning the proper place for these and other novels.

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Prevent child neglect. We aren't integrated. We are all dissociative and see monsters where there are none and miss the monsters that are there and that threaten to destroy all of humanity.

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