{"id":71234,"date":"2013-09-19T19:02:59","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T18:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/literary-classic-invisible-man-banned-in-north-carolina\/71234\/"},"modified":"2013-09-19T19:02:59","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T18:02:59","slug":"literary-classic-invisible-man-banned-in-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/literary-classic-invisible-man-banned-in-north-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"Literary Classic “Invisible Man” Banned in North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the latest crazy move by Republicans in North Carolina, the National Book Award winning novel has been banned for having no “literary value.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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Students in Randolph County, North Carolina, won’t have access to “Invisible Man.” <\/span><\/p>\n

That county’s board of education voted 5-2 this week <\/span><\/a> to remove all copies of the Ralph Ellison novel from school libraries, following a parental complaint about the book’s content and language when it was assigned as summer reading in local Randleman High School. <\/p>\n

“It was a hard read,” said board chair Tommy McDonald, who voted in favor of the ban. <\/p>\n

Another board member said, “I didn’t find any literary value.” <\/p>\n

“Invisible Man,” which won the National Book Award upon its 1953 publication and which has a place on the Modern Library’s list of the 100 best novels of the twentieth century, appraises the social conditions surrounding blacks in the decades before the eventual civli rights movement; the protagonist is invisible because white society refuses to see him. <\/p>\n

The book’s fate is uncertain; a Randleman High School committee has recommended the book remain on shelves there. Randleman has recently been a flashpoint for civil liberties, with the ACLU demanding <\/span><\/a> this month that the school stop invocations of the Lord’s Prayer at football games. <\/p>\n

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