A new edition of Huckleberry Finn is planned that will rewrite Mark Twain’s words. Specifically, two racial epitaphs are being traded for less offensive words. Is this move good for education or bad ...
American history is not always pretty. Sometimes it’s hard to accept that, but it is true. As Americans, there are blemishes there we don’t like the mirror to remind us of. For over 130 years, “The ...
As a boy growing up in North Carolina, Richard P. Burton Sr. remembers being required to read “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and being offended by the repeated use of the word “nigger.”. Now, as ...
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After “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was published in 1885, the book was boycotted in some places in the United States for portraying friendship between a black man and a white boy. “In its time ...
What's wrong with Huckleberry Finn? Absolutely nothing except that few colleges are requiring freshman to read Huckleberry Finn. Or, for that matter, books that cover classical antiquity, the ...
If we can cut out the offensive words in the radio version of a hit song or a sitcom based on a Twitter stream, why not do it for a great American novel? On Tuesday, Publisher’s Weekly announced New ...
Acclaimed novelist Percival Everett will step onto the stage of the Quarry Amphitheater at UC Santa Cruz next month for a highly anticipated conversation with Professor Vilashini Cooppan as part of ...
I don’t think many of us read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for fun. Most likely we were made to read it in high school. Or maybe CliffsNotes did the reading for us. As for those of us who found ...
Two classic American novels have been banned from syllabuses at schools in Minnesota since 2018. The reason being a concern that racial slurs used in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird and Mark ...
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