Seuss book soar over 5.7 MILLION percent after publisher halts printing over ‘hurtful’ stereotypesĪccording to funding documents accessed by the outlet, there are ongoing problems with the history of “demeaning terms” relating to “disability and indigenous cultures”, as well as regarding immigrants to modern America and Britain. Online versions of the texts will have content deemed harmful flagged and warnings will be placed at the beginning of each work, the Daily Mail noted.Īlso on rt.com Amazon sales for banned Dr. The archive, at the university’s Homerton College, is being reviewed prior to the collection being digitised. Frank Baum has been pulled up for the “white supremacy” featured in his 1906 short story ‘Bandit Jim Crow’.
Also included is Dr Seuss creator Theodor Seuss Geisel over “overt blackface” and other cultural insensitivities, while ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’ author L. This list reportedly includes Laura Ingalls Wilder, the author of the 1935 book ‘Little House on the Prairie’, for “stereotypical depictions of Native Americans”. It is being conducted jointly with the University of Florida, and has also received funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities in the US, according to the Daily Mail. The project, reportedly paid for by a £80,633 grant from the taxpayer-funded UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, will apparently expose authors who have been “offensive to historically enslaved, colonised or denigrated people”. More than 10,000 books are apparently under review. The University of Cambridge is reportedly adding “trigger warnings” to children’s classics in its archive, flagging “harmful content relating to slavery, colonialism and racism”.
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