Books Banned for Racial Content
9 books · 986 total challenges
The Color Purple
The Color Purple is Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning epistolary novel about Celie, a young Black woman in the rural...
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is Sherman Alexie's semi-autobiographical novel about Arnold Spirit Jr.,...
The Hate U Give
The Hate U Give follows sixteen-year-old Starr Carter, who witnesses the fatal shooting of her unarmed childhood friend ...
Out of Darkness
Out of Darkness is a historical novel set in 1937 East Texas, interweaving a forbidden interracial love story between a ...
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
Stamped is a young adult adaptation of Ibram X. Kendi's Stamped from the Beginning, remixed by Jason Reynolds to trace t...
The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's debut novel, published in 1970, telling the story of Pecola Breedlove, a young Black g...
Beloved
Beloved is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Toni Morrison set after the American Civil War. Inspired by the true story ...
Homegoing
Homegoing traces two branches of a family tree across three centuries, from 18th-century Ghana through the slave trade t...
Monday's Not Coming
Monday's Not Coming follows Claudia, a Black teenager whose best friend Monday goes missing and no one seems to care eno...