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Bans on books like 'Out of Darkness' target authors of color
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Listen to the episodeA YA novel exploring school segregation in 20th century Texas through a fictional love story between a young African-American boy and a Mexican-American girl. The book has been banned in several places and pulled from school libraries, with the author arguing that sexual content is used as a scapegoat to target books addressing race, gender, and identity-based topics.
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