Storm in the mountains: a case study of censorship, conflict, and consciousness
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1. Verfasser: Moffett, James (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Carbondale, Ill. Southern Illinois University Press 1989, ©1988
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-245) and index
Discusses a 1974 censorship conflict over textbooks in West Virginia, uses interviews to identify the protestors' objections, and discusses education in America
Part 1 : The drama. Prologue : West, by God, Virginia -- Storm in the mountains -- The reverberating network -- Kanawha County and Orange County -- Part 2 : Voices from the fray. Father, make them one -- Free enterprise -- Through a glass, darkly -- Race war, holy war -- Part 3 : What's in the books. Commies and sex -- McGuffey rides again -- Anyone for the classics? -- The innocence is the crime -- Man's head, beast body -- Reading comprehension -- Petrified -- Part 4 : Diagnosing agnosis -- Ideology and bed-wetting -- Group rule -- Playing with I.D. cards -- Tales out of school
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 264 pages)
ISBN:0585276765
9780585276762
080931424X
080931584X
9780809314249

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