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Dr. Seuss's book THE SNEETCHES AND OTHER STORIES came out in 1961. You can, if you want, read it as a parable about bullying, but I have always read it as a story about segregation. (One of the other stories in the book, "What Was I Scared Of?" is also about prejudice.)

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@ZJemptv There's a pretty excellent YA novel I read earlier this year in which a couple of kids at an arts high school put together a secret burlesque show and "somehow these same clothes are shocking now" was a major plot point. ("The Big Reveal" by Jen Larsen.)

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@ZJemptv Also, did you ever read the Judy Blume books when you were a kid? (They were a staple of my childhood.) I re-read several last year, including "Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great."

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@clairewillett Diane Duane actually went back and updated a bunch of her books at one point to clean up stuff that hadn't aged well. In other words, they should be adapting So You Want to Be a Wizard and not fucking HP. Ffs.

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Dr. Seuss's book THE SNEETCHES AND OTHER STORIES came out in 1961. You can, if you want, read it as a parable about bullying, but I have always read it as a story about segregation. (One of the other stories in the book, "What Was I Scared Of?" is also about prejudice.)

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@LaborPal @aphoebebarton Cory Doctorow's novella RADICALIZED is about this. Change arrives in the end but the interim period is not a good time to be a health insurance executive.

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@bananafitz 1. Swordheart by T. Kingfisher 2. I Have Some Questions For You by Rebecca Makkai 3. A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys

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@anne_theriault CS Lewis, in explaining why Eustace Scrubb is a brat in "The Voyage of the Dawn Treader," partly attributes it to him having excessively modern parents who ask him about his feelings. That was published in the 50s, I think.

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@TigerSpot2 @SwordsmithLRG Omg, same. Also, James Loewen's excellent "Lies My Teacher Told Me" (which is really about textbooks, not teachers) had a chapter called "Down the Memory Hole" about how recent history is (mostly not) taught.

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@clairewillett When you're done watching TOS you would probably greatly enjoy John M. Ford's extremely weird Star Trek novel, "How Much For Just the Planet."