My cultural artifact was the US Banned Book Collection and it was chosen because of its informational and harmful qualities. This list was written by conservative members of the United States everywhere, who believe that books will lead to the breakdown of family and society as we know it instead of violent racial or religious supremacists, mass shootings, or hate speech. This list is an uncontrolled tumor on our society and it needs to be cut out. This list shows how far members of our country will go to undue change by the people before us who have put died and cried for us to have the rights that we do today.
The items contained within this list are about queer history or romance, Native Americans, or books that go against the views of the church — even though we are supposed to have a separation of church and state. These texts and the act of banning information is integral to this course, because they incredibly relate to the core part of this class which is learning. It is important to learn what people want so dearly to ban, because who will fight for this except for the people who have the information.
`The purpose of this class is to educate, and this banned book collection goes against that purpose. We need to be aware of what others seek to destroy
It’s crazy to look at the banned book collection and see so many books that I’ve read, and were assigned to me in highschool. I think I’m lucky that I grew up in a house that reads, and went to a school were I got to experience a lot of these books. It’s always pretty ironic when stuff like Fahrenheit 451 gets banned. Well, also terrifying. But yeah.