Racial Content

Books Banned for Racial Content

9 books · 986 total challenges

BANNED 213 challenges

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

The Color Purple is Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning epistolary novel about Celie, a young Black woman in the rural...

Sexual ContentLGBTQ+ ThemesLanguage
BANNED 187 challenges

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

by Sherman Alexie

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is Sherman Alexie's semi-autobiographical novel about Arnold Spirit Jr.,...

Sexual ContentLanguageRacial Content
BANNED 185 challenges

The Hate U Give

by Angie Thomas

The Hate U Give follows sixteen-year-old Starr Carter, who witnesses the fatal shooting of her unarmed childhood friend ...

Racial ContentLanguageViolence
BANNED 146 challenges

Out of Darkness

by Ashley Hope Pérez

Out of Darkness is a historical novel set in 1937 East Texas, interweaving a forbidden interracial love story between a ...

Sexual ContentRacial ContentViolence
BANNED 138 challenges

Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You

by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi

Stamped is a young adult adaptation of Ibram X. Kendi's Stamped from the Beginning, remixed by Jason Reynolds to trace t...

Racial ContentPolitical Content
BANNED 47 challenges

The Bluest Eye

by Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's debut novel, published in 1970, telling the story of Pecola Breedlove, a young Black g...

Sexual ContentRacial ContentViolence
BANNED 38 challenges

Beloved

by Toni Morrison

Beloved is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Toni Morrison set after the American Civil War. Inspired by the true story ...

Sexual ContentViolenceRacial Content
BANNED 16 challenges

Homegoing

by Yaa Gyasi

Homegoing traces two branches of a family tree across three centuries, from 18th-century Ghana through the slave trade t...

Sexual ContentViolenceRacial Content
BANNED 16 challenges

Monday's Not Coming

by Tiffany D. Jackson

Monday's Not Coming follows Claudia, a Black teenager whose best friend Monday goes missing and no one seems to care eno...

ViolenceLanguageRacial Content