Author Tanisia Moore tells Rolling Stone that school book bans allow racist ideology to skate by.
A child picks out a book at a book fair in Tyler, Texas, in 2017 — one of more than 100,000 that happens across the country each year.she has fond memories of bringing a catalog home to her mother and pointing out different books she wanted to read. But she also remembers the feeling of being surrounded by books that didn’t really speak to her experience as a Black girl.
Moore, who lives in Georgia, says she’s no stranger to getting pushback on her book, which intertwines the history of famous civil rights activists Justice Thurgood Marshall and John Lewis with late pop culture figures like Nipsey Hussle and Chadwick Boseman. Some of the state’s largest school districts have developed vague and arbitrary laws prohibiting books on race and gender expression.
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