Mike Hixenbaugh Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Mike Hixenbaugh

The list includes “Fences,” a play by August Wilson that won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1987, and “They Called Themselves the K.K.K.,” a historical look at how the white supremacist group took root in America. https://www.kmuw.org/education/2021-11-09/goddard-school-district-orders-29-books-removed-from-circulation

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I’m thrilled to share that my book, UNCIVIL, is on the shortlist for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Awards from @columbiajourn and @niemanfdn. The complete list of finalists can be found here: https://t.co/X8IuYoS1GO https://t.co/l9EMfbYpEv

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Recent library book challenge from a mom in North Texas. “I read every page expecting to be offended.” But after finding “Ash” by Malinda Lo to be filled with “kindness and caring,” parent Mary Smith wanted it banned anyway because it “normalizes lesbian love.” https://t.co/Jh7RJ98xB3

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In Fort Bend County, a local conservative group accused the only Black woman running for school board of wanting to give kids “easy access to porns” and of using the word “equal” as a code word for her plan to indoctrinate kids with critical race theory. 3/ https://t.co/Ga4keekvCx

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This is a great episode of This American Life. The section where @chanajoffewalt talks to a mom in Katy, Texas, about her objection to Jerry Craft’s book, The New Kid, is particularly … eye opening 🤯 https://www.thisamericanlife.org/758/talking-while-black

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8th graders in Southlake were supposed to read “Full Tilt” by Neal Shusterman for language arts this school year. But after parents complained about kids being forced to read “demonic garbage,” the teacher emailed parents tonight to say the assignment had been scrapped 👇 https://t.co/ADH4lLXJSQ

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Last night in Keller, Texas, parents carted in a wagon full of books that they are falsely calling "porn." Quick scan based on this @CBSDFW report, it includes The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, Gracefully Grayson by Ami Polonsky, and This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki. https://t.co/Sq1kPIZMnD

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Deep in conspiracy land now. Dr. Robert Malone, asked whether the pandemic was pre-planned by the US government, stops just short of saying yes. Cites pandemic scenarios simulated by Johns Hopkins in 2017 as evidence that it was. More gasps. The CPAC crowd is rapt. https://t.co/0U8uHQWbFq

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