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Welcome. My name is Vivian Schiller and im the director of aspen digital. Were blunt glad you could be with us today. The New York Times bestseller list can often seem to be a veneer of the National Psyche and this year it seems to reflect a nation going through an awakening on matters of race. Books written by people of color and about matters of race and racism have filled those lists, both fiction and nonfiction. Thats the good news. Sadly the Publishing Industry does not necessarily always reflect that reality. The recent twitter protest hashtag publishing pay me exposed the disparity in the industry between black and nonblack authors. There are few people of color who serve as publishing staff or literary agents and even fewer who operate at decisionmaki ....
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Hosting. Good night. And now on cspan2 book tb, more television for serious readers. Hi everybody i am Vivian Schiller and i the aspen institute. Really glad you could be with us today. The near times bestseller list can often be a mirror of the national psyche. As such, this year it seems to reflect the nation going through an awakening on matters of race. Books written by people of color and about matters of race and racism have filled those lists. Both fiction and nonfiction. That is the good news. Sadly the Publishing Industry does not always reflect that reality. The recent twitter protest publishing paid me expose a major pay disparity in the industry between black and nonblack authors. Theres a few people of color who served as publishing staff or literary agents. And even fewer who operate at decisionmaking levels. And for those who are published, sometimes the ....
On capitol hill to testify on the states new antibook man law before the Senate Judiciary committee. He was among a panel of advocates representing both sides of the debate who also addressed censorship and diversity of thought during this two hour hearing. Ty of thought during this two hour meeting. Has considered the negative influence of looks. I ask to start the video. If you want to know the cause, here it is. It is these rotten comic books. It is my opinion without any reasonable doubt or reservation comic books are an important can should beating factor in many cases of juvenile delinquency. A Tennessee School board has been the critically acclaimed graphic novel mouse. It is a true story about the horrors of the holocaust by art spiegelman. The school board claimed it banned the graphic novel because of profanity and nudity. [indiscernible] was over here has a bad ....
This meeting of the Senate Judiciary committee will come to order. We will be talking book bans, how censorship limits literature will come to order. The city of chicago band a book known as the Wonderful Wizard of oz from all of its public libraries. Local leaders claimed that the book would have an ungodly influence on his readers. We now consider the Wonderful World pardon me. The wonderful was a vase to be in the words of congress a timeless american classic. Unfortunately, there was a long history in the country of banning books that are now considered classic literature. This video, which im about to show you, will indicate this is not the first time that the Senate Judiciary committee has considered the negative influence of books. Please start the vid ....