No Maus: Latest book-banning tirade by GOP targets pulitzer-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust milwaukeeindependent.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from milwaukeeindependent.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Following a school board’s ban of Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize–winning graphic novel Maus, Davidson College professor Scott Denham is offering a free online course for eighth- through 12th-grade students in McMinn County, Tenn., where the board voted 10-to-0 to remove the book from use in middle school classes. “The McMinn Co., TN, School Board banned Spiegelman’s Maus I
People in the community were upset, saying banning the book for profanity and violence was not an adequate excuse given the content students are exposed to daily.