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Links About Censorship
A teacher’s guide to facing censorship. English Journal, 113(3), 22–28.
Free Resources for 1984. The practical English teacher. [Web log post].
Pen America. (2025). Book Bans. [Web log post].
Banned in the USA: Beyond the selves. Pen America
2025 List of Banned Books. American Library Association
The Chilling Effect Is Real: Educators’ Stories About Book Bans. SLATE
University of San Diego Legal Research Center. (2026). The Law and Policy of Book Bans: Cases and Legislation
Novels about book banning. Facebook. [Web log post].
Creating text complexity rationales. Study & Scrutiny: Research on young adult literature, 6(1),
87-107.
Why teachers self-censor. NEA Today. [Web log post].
Librarians and the Politics of Banned Books (Documentary) PBS Independent Lens
National Coalition Against Censorship: Resources
The First Amendment in Schools National Coalition Against Censorship Resources
Resources to Protect the Freedom To Read in School. National Education Association
Fight Censorship. American Library Association
Censorship by the Numbers: Banned Books Data. American Library Association
Educational Censorship. PEN
Project Censored in the Classroom
Censorship Resources. National English Honor Society
Banned Books. Arizona State University Library Guides
Read Banned Books. Penguin Random House
Teen Topics: Banned Books. Oakland Public Library
Videos About Censorship. Stossel
Further Reading
Alfonesca K. (2024). How Americans feel about book bans, restrictions: Survey. ABC News.
Artushin, H. R. (2024, May 9). Why book bans are bad for mental health. Psychology Today.
Birch, S. (2022). A new prohibition era: Book banning, prison abolition, and librarians. Education for Information, 38, 415–422. DOI 10.3233/EFI-220065
Craig T. (2021). Moms for Liberty has turned ‘parental rights’ into a rallying cry for conservative parents. The Washington Post.
Dávila D. (2022). The tacit censorship of youth literature: A taxonomy of text selection stances. Children's Literature in Education, 53(3), 376–391.
Gilbard M. (2023). What you need to know about the book bans sweeping the U.S. Teachers College, Columbia University.
Giunco K., Smith K. P., Wargo J. M. (2024). In-service educators making sense of risky literature: The cultural politics of positioning (con)texts during a yearlong antibias, antiracist book club. Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 73(1), 10.
Goncalves M. S., Langrock I., LaViolette J., Spoon K. (2024). Book bans in political context: Evidence from US schools. PNAS Nexus, 3(6), 197.
Hammond W., & Nossel S. (2021). Learning the lesson of ‘Banned Books’ week. The Wall Street Journal.
Hicks, T., Gabrion, L., Lester, K., & Schoenborn, A. (2022). Standing up and pushing back: resources from a conversation around book bans and censorship. Michigan Reading Journal, 54(3), 13.
Godfrey V. C. (2023). Teachers’ self-censorship of children’s literature in Texas—what’s legislation got to do with it? AERA Open, 9,
Jaeger, P. (2025). The Immortality of hatred and revenge: The interconnections of censorship, disinformation, and cultural erasure in the book bans targeting marginalized populations. The Library Quarterly, 95(1).
Leland, C. H. & Bangert, S. E. (2019). Encouraging activism through art: Preservice teachers challenge censorship. Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 68, 162-182. DOI: 10.1177/2381336919870272
McArdle E. (2023). Book bans and the librarians who won’t be hushed. Harvard Education Online.
Modan, N. (2026, May 11). Large shares of banned books feature people of color or are nonfiction, report says. [Web log post]. K-12 Dive.
Murdter-Atkinson, J. A., Ranschaert, R., Ashcraft, E., & Redding, L. (2025). “We can’t use that book!”: Navigating preservice teacher’s text selection under the specter of censorship discourses. Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 74(1), 191-211.
PEN America. (2024). Beyond the shelves. PEN America.
PEN America. (2024). America’s censored classrooms 2024. PEN America.
Pickering, G. (2023). “Harmful to minors”: How book bans hurt adolescent development. The Serials Librarian, 84(1-4), 32-45. DOI: 10.1080/0361526X.2023.2245843
Rembert K., Harris P., Hamilton F. (2019). Being an anti-racist educator is a verb: From the NCTE Committee against racism and bias in the teaching of English. National Council of Teachers of English.
Scales, P. R. (2016). Defending frequently challenged young adult books. Bloomsbury.
Shearer M. (2022). Banning books or banning BIPOC? New Universal Law Review Online, 124, 24.
Swenson A. (2023, June 11). Moms for Liberty rises as a power player in GOP politics after attacking schools over gender and race. AP News.
Tolin L. (2025). Banned books list 2025. PEN America.
Tucker T. (2024). Dangerous reading: How socially constructed narratives of childhood shape perspectives on book banning. Public Library Quarterly, 43(2), 135–149.
Wetzel M. M. (2020). Disrupting race-evasive practices in literacy teacher education: Reflections on research and implications for policy. Language Arts, 97(5), 306–316
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