TN School Board Bans Pulitzer-Winning Holocaust Novel

CNBC reports:

A Tennessee school board has voted to remove the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel “Maus” from an eighth-grade language arts curriculum due to concerns about profanity and an image of female nudity in its depiction of Polish Jews who survived the Holocaust.

The Jan. 10 vote by the McMinn County School Board, which only began attracting attention Wednesday, comes amid a number of battles in school systems around the country as conservatives target curriculums over teachings about the history of slavery and racism in America.

“I’m kind of baffled by this,” Art Spiegelman [photo], the author of “Maus,” told CNBC in an interview about the unanimous vote by the McMinn board to bar the book, which is about his parents.

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Tennessee school board bans Holocaust graphic novel “Maus” – author Art Spiegelman condemns the move as “Orwellian” https://t.co/R4PIrzUSYI

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There’s only one kind of people who would vote to ban Maus, whatever they are calling themselves these days. https://t.co/fs1Jl62Qd8

— Neil Gaiman (@neilhimself) January 26, 2022