More than 2,500 books have been removed from school shelves in America in the past year as conservative groups coordinate their focus on literature for various reasons, frequently because of racial or gender themes.
In the period from July 2021 to June 2022, PEN America’s Index of School Book Bans records 2,532 instances of specific books being prohibited, along with 1,648 other book titles.
Approximately 41 percent of the banned works featured LGBTQ themes, main characters, or significant supporting characters. Characters of color made up 40 percent of the main or significant secondary characters, while 21 percent of the titles dealt with racial and racist topics.
A total of 22 percent of the prohibited books included explicit material.
Almost every state now has a branch of Moms for Liberty, a Brevard County-based organization that has since gone nationwide and is responsible for most of the bans. In addition to public libraries, these organizations are focusing on school libraries and are pushing for leadership positions in school districts.
Moms for Liberty said it is committed to “unifying, educating and empowering parents to defend their parental rights at all levels of government.”
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