James Moffett - Storm in the Mountains: A Case Study of Censorship, Conflict, and Consciousness
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In 1974 one of the most important and tumultuous textbook conflicts in the history of the United States occurred in Kanawha County, West Virginia.James Moffett had developed for Houghton Mifflin a highly regarded program with a rich array of subjects and ideas, media and methods, points of view, and cultures that the people of Appalachia feared would undermine the values they had taught their children.Moffett lets the book banners speak for themselves through interviews and through the official objections written by citizen reviewers of the texts. He shows exactly how the protesters regard particular reading selections and ultimately, how they think. His commentary on their objections builds an unusually broad perspective on censorship, which he relates to many current issues of society learning, andthe chief concern of the protestersreligion.Storm in the Mountains is a timely book. The Kanawha County ruckus emboldened censors to escalate their efforts. Textbook publishers routinely precensor texts to avoid the objections dramatized in West Virginia. And fundamentalism has become a major political force.
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A Case Study of Censorship, Conflict, and Consciousness
James Moffett
Southern Illinois University Press Carbondale and Edwardsville
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Copyright 1988 by the Board of Trustees Southern Illinois University All rights reserved First paperback edition published 1989 Printed in the United States of America Edited by Stephen W. Smith Designed by Natalia Nadraga
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Moffett, James. Storm in the mountains.
Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Textbooks West Virginia Kanawha County Censorship Case Studies. I. Title. LB3045.7.M64 1988 379.1'56 87-20614 ISBN 0-8093-1584-X (pbk.)
Grateful acknowledgement of permission to reprint is extended for the following: From "My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew," excerpt from The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin. Copyright 1962, 1963 by James Baldwin. Reprinted by permission of Doubleday & Company, Inc. Also from The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin, reprinted by permission of Michael Joseph Ltd. From Conley, T. R. (1976) "Scream Silently: One View of the Kanawha County Textbook Controversy," Journal of Research and Development in Education, Vol. 9(3), 93101. From ''Journey of the Magi" from Collected Poems 19091962 by T. S. Eliot, reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd. Also from "Journey of the Magi" in Collected Poems 19091962 by T. S. Eliot, copyright 1936 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.; copyright 1963, 1964 by T. S. Eliot. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. From the record album Textbook War Hills of West Virginia, by permission of the Rev. Avis Hill. "Snake" copyright 1955 by Theodore Roethke from The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke. Reprinted by permission of Doubleday & Company, Inc. Also reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd. from The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke. "The Gray Squirrel" by Humbert Wolfe, from Kensington Gardens (London: Ernest Benn Ltd., 1924), by permission of Ann Wolfe. From "A Dance for Ma Rainey" by Al Young, from The New Black Poetry, ed. Clarence Major, 1969, by permission of International Publishers Co., Inc., New York.
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.
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To my wife Janet for the many ways in which she participated in the creation of this book
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