Books are heavily restricted behind bars, including some of the books that officials have fought for students to access.

The last several months of the Trump administration’s reign have seen the deployment of language restriction as a tactic in the systemic erosion of civil rights. While the scale has intensified dramatically, this enforcement of social hegemony through literary and aesthetic regulation is not a new phenomenon. Historian Andrew Hartman contends that “the history of America, for better and worse…

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