![]() Progressives may argue for an unvarnished instruction of U.S. Public school curriculums feature prominently in the culture wars that many Republicans are hoping to ride to electoral victory. With predictable results.Īlready alert to a flurry of previous efforts to remove titles deemed inappropriate by state and local politicians-including a Texas state lawmaker’s demand that every school district “investigate” some 850 books dealing with race or sexuality-liberals smelled a rat. 10 to remove it from the middle school curriculum. Maus is taught in thousands of schools, including, until recently, to eighth-graders in Tennessee’s McMinn County, where the local school board voted 10-0 on Jan. The book communicates the history of the Holocaust through the history of his family- Polish Jews, who are rendered as mice, sent to death camps by Nazis, who are rendered as cats. In the four decades since Art Spiegelman began Maus, the graphic novel has sold millions of copies, won a Pulitzer Prize, and secured a place in the Western canon. ![]()
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