Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel (1960) has been one of the most challenged books in American schools since the 1970s, objected to alternately for its racial content (offensive language) and for its frank treatment of rape. The paradox β a novel explicitly about racial injustice being challenged partly on racial grounds β illustrates the complexity of literary censorship debates around historical texts.

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