Price and I set out to provide a source of information for students and community members interested in book censorship in St. Mary’s County Maryland and I believe we accomplished just that. We focused on creating a historical context for the period in which Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison was challenged in St. Mary’s […]
Blog Entry 18 April 2018
It has all come together. Our website is up. We have received some suggestions and expect to be done with all our edits by the end of this weekend. In a weird way I do not want this project to be over, but I am excited to graduate and move onto bigger things. The process […]
Blog Entry 9 April 2018
What I think Censorship is a slippery slope. I understand where parents would like to protect their children from how ugly the world can be, but in the specific case of Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison, the ugliness of the world is not being promoted. Nothing in the book encourages readers to take part […]
Blog Entry 2 April 2018
The Finish Line Our draft website is due next week. I have a formidable but not unattainable workload in front of me. I still need to write a reflective blog style post about my own opinion on this case and that opinion is still developing day by day. My initial search for information led me […]
Blog Entry 26 March 2018
Hesitation and Backlash. Hesitation and Backlash are the guardian dogs protecting institutions from accountability. Its difficult to get around the fear of dealing with the weight on an institution that does not support you looking into their closet and finding all their skeletons. In class today, our peers who are covering Toni Morrison’s The […]
Blog Entry 19 March 2018
Trash and Filth. In 1998 Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon was removed from curriculum in St. Mary’s County Maryland Public Schools for having what some deemed trash and filth in their criticisms of the book. These same struggles are echoed in the writing of Donald A. Downs on Government Censorship since 1945. His article claims […]
Blog entry 12 March 2018
Archival mishaps and missing information. I realized that I had missed some requirements for reading responses, but this has also presented me with a unique opportunity to re-read some of the earlier content in this class with experience and a higher level of context. While these readings are used to give us a basis for […]
Blog Entry 05 March 2018
The interview. Morning came and so with it our interview. I was a little nervous because I have never interviewed anyone academically. I have conducting interviews on both sides of a job table, but I have never interviewed someone about their personal beliefs. We arrived at the library and I was surprised by the amount […]
Blog Entry 26 February 2018
This week Price and I are interviewing at least one of our important sources. We were trying to arrange for two interviews this week, but we have been unable to get consistent responses from one of them. We hope to catch them before they leave the country in March. I have learned that with short-term […]
Blog Entry 19 February 2018
Survey of Technology As we come closer to deadlines for our project it became time to see what our school had to offer us. Justin Foreman is our point of contact at the media center and luckily, I am already familiar with him. Our school has a lab for recording high quality audio that […]