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The Guardian - US
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Richard Luscombe

UNCOVERED: Texas condemned for placing book on colonization in library s fiction section - Caught on Camera

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According to PEN America, Texas is second in the nation in book banning. Photograph: AztecBlue/Alamy

Anti-censorship advocates have joined the book publisher Penguin Random House in condemning a Texas county that reclassified an account of European settlers’ colonization of Indigenous Americans as fiction.

The furor in Montgomery county – near Houston – follows the decision by a citizens review panel, at the behest of rightwing activists, to place Colonization and the Wampanoag Story by Linda Coombs in the fiction section of children’s libraries.

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