Texas condemned for placing book on colonization in library’s fiction section

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Texas condemned for placing book on colonization in library’s fiction section

Oct 21 2024

Anti-censorship advocates have joined book publisher Penguin Random House in condemning a Texas county that reclassified an account of European settlers’ colonization of Indigenous Americans as fiction.

Source: The Guardian

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