"The Color Purple (film) The Color Purple is a 1985 American coming-of-age period drama film directed by Steven Spielberg with a screenplay by Menno Meyjes, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1982 novel of the same name by Alice Walker. It was Spielberg's eighth film as a director, and was a change from the summer blockbusters for which he had become famous. The film was also the first feature-length film directed by Spielberg for which John Williams did not compose the music. The film stars Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Desreta Jackson, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey (in her film debut), Rae Dawn"
"Radio Academy Awards Silver Drama Award. As part of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS), the author declined publication of the book in Israel in 2012. Walker, an ardent pro-Palestinian activist, said in a letter to Yediot Books that Israel practices ""apartheid"" and must change its policies before her works can be published there. This decision was criticized by Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz, who argued that Walker ""resorted to bigotry and censorship against Hebrew-speaking readers of her writings"". The Color Purple The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer"
"Alice Walker of bigotry for refusing to have her novel ""The Color Purple"" published by an Israeli firm. He also took part in the Doha Debates at Georgetown University in April 2009, where he spoke against the motion ""this House believes it's time for the US to get tough on Israel"", with Dore Gold, President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Speakers for the motion were Avraham Burg, former Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel and former Speaker of the Knesset; and Michael Scheuer, former Chief of the CIA Bin Laden Issue Station. Dershowitz's side lost the debate,"
"they did not ask that the book be banned. The group appreciated that the novel addressed injustices of the past, but believed the alternative books that they proposed ""address multicultural and socially sensitive issues in a meaningful, respectful manner"", whereas Steinbeck's novel does not. ""To Kill a Mockingbird"" (1960), by Harper Lee, rose to fame quickly after winning the Pulitzer Prize and has since been considered an American classic. The novel confronts issues of rape and racial inequality, but is highly regarded for its universal themes that can appeal to many readers. The novel has been censored since its 1960"
"and her classic novel ""Their Eyes Were Watching God"" back to the attention of the literary world. In 1982, Walker won both the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for her novel ""The Color Purple"". An epistolary novel (a book written in the form of letters), ""The Color Purple"" tells the story of Celie, a young woman who is sexually abused by her stepfather and then is forced to marry a man who physically abuses her. The novel was later made into a film by Steven Spielberg. The 1970s also saw African-American books topping the bestseller lists. Among the"
"white public thought. More recently, some critics accused Alice Walker of unfairly attacking black men in her novel ""The Color Purple"" (1982). In his updated 1995 introduction to his novel ""Oxherding Tale"", Charles Johnson criticized Walker's novel for its negative portrayal of African-American males: ""I leave it to readers to decide which book pushes harder at the boundaries of convention, and inhabits most confidently the space where fiction and philosophy meet."" Walker responded in her essays ""The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult"" (1998). Robert Hayden, the first African-American Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, critiqued"
"has been challenged several times due to parental concerns regarding the attempted rape of the main character. One of these incidents occurred in March 1996, when the book was removed from the sixth grade reading list in Pulaski Township, Pennsylvania, at the behest of parents who ""complained of a graphic marital rape scene in the book"". It is number 32 on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–1999. The book has additionally been criticized for its stereotypical depiction of Inuit culture. Since its first publication, ""Julie of the Wolves"" has also been published"
"woods. Several critics pointed to this as a dangerous perpetuation of a traditional Southern justification for lynching. Despite the controversy, the novel was a runaway critical and financial success, and won both the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and the William Dean Howells Medal in 1970. Styron's next novel, ""Sophie's Choice"" (1979), also generated significant controversy, in part due to Styron's decision to portray a non-Jewish victim of the Holocaust and in part due to its explicit sexuality and profanity. It was banned in South Africa, censored in the Soviet Union, and banned in Poland for ""its unflinching portrait of"
"using intimidation to enforce the cultural norms of the school and various characters' sexual ponderings, it has been embroiled in censorship controversies and appeared as third on the American Library Association's list of the ""Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books in 2000–2009."" A sequel was published in 1985 called ""Beyond the Chocolate War"". Jerry Renault is a freshman attending an all-boys Catholic high school called Trinity, while coping with depressive feelings and existential questions that stem largely from his mother's recent death and his father's enduring grief. Jerry is quickly recruited onto Trinity's football team, where he meets ""The Goober,"" a fellow"
"from ""Just Above My Head"" by James Baldwin, ""The Executioner's Song"" by Norman Mailer, ""The Ghost Writer"" by Philip Roth, and ""Endless Love"" by Scott Spencer (where the Pulitzer for fiction and the Nobel for literature for that year went, respectively, to Norman Mailer for ""Executioner's"" and to Czeslaw Milosz for his body of poetry and other work). ""Sophie's Choice"" generated significant controversy at time of its publication, in part due to Styron's decision to portray a non-Jewish victim of the Holocaust and in part due to its explicit sexuality and profanity; it was banned in South Africa, censored in"
"is ""profoundly racist and profoundly wrong."" In 1984, an alderman in Waukegan, Illinois, challenged the book's inclusion on the reading list of the Waukegan School District on the grounds of ""racism"" and ""unacceptable language."" He objected to the frequent use of the racial slur ""nigger."" He also objected to several other books: ""The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'"", ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"", and ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" for the same reason. In 1937, Margaret Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for ""Gone with the Wind"" and the second annual National Book Award from the American Booksellers Association. It is ranked as"
"flotilla prompted an op-ed, headlined ""Alice Walker's bigotry,"" written by American attorney and law professor Alan Dershowitz in ""The Jerusalem Post."" Dershowitz said, by participating in the flotilla to evade the blockade, she was ""provid[ing] material support for terrorism."" Walker is a judge member of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine. She supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel. In 2012, Walker refused to authorize a Hebrew translation of her book ""The Color Purple"", criticizing what she called Israel's ""apartheid state."" In May 2013, Walker posted an open letter to singer Alicia Keys, asking her to cancel a planned"
"to follow them, meaning they will have no respect for their parents, the law or teachers. ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" (1884) by Mark Twain was listed by the American Library Association as the 5th most commonly banned book in the U.S. due to supposed racism in 2007. NewSouth Books received media attention for publishing an expurgated edition of the work that censored the words ""nigger"" and ""Injun"". A parent in a school district in Arizona attempted to have the novel banned in a case that reached the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in the case ""Monteiro"
"was published. ""Meridian"" is a novel about activist workers in the South, during the civil rights movement, with events that closely parallel some of Walker's own experiences. In 1982, she published what has become her best-known work, ""The Color Purple"". The novel follows a young, troubled black woman fighting her way through not just racist white culture but patriarchal black culture as well. The book became a bestseller and was subsequently adapted into a critically acclaimed 1985 movie directed by Steven Spielberg, featuring Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg, as well as a 2005 Broadway musical totaling 910 performances. Walker has"
"thereby restricting the access of others. As such, they are a threat to freedom of speech and choice.” However it is still named as one of the most challenging books. His first novel “Snow Falling on Cedars” named one of the most banned books even though he won many awards with the book. The censors “compared the book to PORN” and sexually inappropriate. When he was writing the second novel, he looked back “it is always hard to write another book” and “deathly afraid.” However, he did not seem unhappy about getting banned, ""the novel seems to have made a"
"walks away from their marriage, later going to the police to report the attack. Asked by an officer ""How many of you people live there?"" he declines to correct the mistake, realizing that by accepting it he sets himself against those who have abused him, rather than against their intended targets. Focus (novel) Focus is a 1945 novel by Arthur Miller which deals with issues of racism, particularly antisemitism. In 2001, a film version, starring William H. Macy, was released. The novel is set in New York towards the end of the Second World War. Its protagonist is a Gentile"
"the home of many influential writers of the 20th century, including Margaret Mitchell, author of ""Gone With the Wind"", one of the best-selling books of all time; Alice Walker, author of Pulitzer Prize-winning and critically acclaimed novel ""The Color Purple""; Alfred Uhry, playwright of ""Driving Miss Daisy"", which deals with Jewish residents of Atlanta in the early 20th century; and Joel Chandler Harris, author of the ""Brer Rabbit"" children's stories. Famous journalists include Ralph McGill, the anti-segregationist editor and publisher of the ""Atlanta Constitution"" newspaper. Atlanta is also the home of contemporary editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich, who is syndicated nationally"
"banned the book from the county's publicly funded schools and libraries. It was burned in Salinas on two different occasions. In 2003, a school board in Mississippi banned it on the grounds of profanity. According to the American Library Association Steinbeck was one of the ten most frequently banned authors from 1990 to 2004, with ""Of Mice and Men"" ranking sixth out of 100 such books in the United States. The award of the 1962 Nobel Prize for Literature to Steinbeck was controversial in the United States. The award citation lauded Steinbeck ""for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as"
"ultimate melodrama."" The novella has been banned from various US public and school libraries or curricula for allegedly ""promoting euthanasia"", ""condoning racial slurs"", being ""anti-business"", containing profanity, and generally containing ""vulgar"" and ""offensive language"". Many of the bans and restrictions have been lifted and it remains required reading in many other American, Australian, Irish, British, New Zealand and Canadian high schools. As a result of being a frequent target of censors, ""Of Mice and Men"" appears on the American Library Association's list of the ""Most Challenged Books of the 21st Century"" (number 4). In the UK, it was listed at"
"controversy as it has obsession: the series was the most frequently challenged book in 2001 and 2002, before falling to second-most challenged book in 2003. The ALA cites the reasons for censorship as ""anti-family, occult/Satanism, religious viewpoint, violence"", but the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas's ""Free People Read Freely"" report also cited concerns over sexual content. In one case in Lawrenceville, Georgia in 2007, a parent asked that the ""Harry Potter"" books be kept out of classrooms, suggesting that the novels promote the practice of witchcraft and contain violent content that is not suitable for her fifteen-year-old daughter to"
"Review"" wrote that it is a ""striking and consummately well-written novel,"" praising its powerful emotional impact and epistolary structure. Though the novel has garnered critical acclaim, it has also been the subject of controversy. It is 17th on the American Library Association's list of most frequently challenged or banned books. Commonly cited justifications for banning the book include sexual explicitness, explicit language, violence, and homosexuality. The book received greater scrutiny amidst controversy surrounding the release of the film adaptation in 1985. The controversy centered around the depiction of black men, which some critics saw as feeding stereotypical narratives of black"
"promptly banned by librarians in Massachusetts in March of the same year. The book was banned due to Twain's frequent use of the word “nigger” as well as the novel being described as “racially insensitive,” as well as “perpetuat[ing] racism.” It has since, and still remains among the top 100 most challenged books up to date. In 1915, architect William Sanger was charged under New York law for disseminating contraceptive information. His wife Margaret Sanger was similarly charged in 1915 for her work ""The Woman Rebel"". Sanger circulated this work through the U.S. postal service, effectively violating the Comstock Law."
"publication and appeared on the ALA's top ten most frequently challenged books in 2009 and 2011. The novel is objectionable because it deals with racial injustice, class systems, gender roles, loss of innocence while discussing violence, rape, incest and authority, while using strong language. In July 1996, the Superintendent of the Moss Point School District in Mississippi announced ""To Kill a Mockingbird"" would be reviewed by a group of parents, community members and teachers after a complaint came from Reverend Greg Foster about the novel's racial descriptions and discussion of sexual activity. The novel was ultimately banned from being accessed"
"by the women-initiated organization Code Pink, Kingston refused to leave the street after being instructed to do so by local police forces. She shared a jail cell with authors Alice Walker and Terry Tempest Williams who were also participants in the demonstration. Kingston's anti-war stance has significantly trickled into her work; she has stated that writing ""The Fifth Book of Peace"" was initiated and inspired by growing up during World War II. Kingston was honored as a 175th Speaker Series writer at Emma Willard School in September 2005. In April, 2007, Kingston was awarded the Northern California Book Award Special"
"celebrities;"" Richard Wright's ""Native Son""; Islam and Christianity; day-to-day prison life; and the relationship between black men and white women. In the book, Cleaver admitted to raping black girls as a ""practice run"" before seeking white women as prey, but claims that in jail he had come to consider those acts as inhuman and, inspired by Malcolm X, had repudiated racism. The text also included homophobic criticism of the writings of the black novelist James Baldwin. The book was one of eleven involved in a U.S. Supreme Court case in 1982. The books were removed from libraries or otherwise restricted"
"1986. Alice Walker received the Pulitzer Prize in 1983 for her novel ""The Color Purple"". In September 1983, Vanessa L. Williams became the first African American to win the title of Miss America as Miss America 1984. The crack cocaine epidemic had a devastating effect on Black America. As early as 1981, reports of crack were appearing in Los Angeles, San Diego, Miami, and Houston. In 1984, the distribution and use of crack exploded. In 1984, in some major cities such as New York, Philadelphia, Houston, Los Angeles, and Detroit, one dosage unit of crack could be obtained for as"
"comedy to provide humor at Jim's expense, and ended up confirming rather than challenging late-19th century racist stereotypes. John Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1939 novel ""The Grapes of Wrath"" often is cited as the most successful social protest novel of the 20th Century, Part of its impact stemmed from its passionate depiction of the plight of the poor, and in fact, many of Steinbeck's contemporaries attacked his social and political views. Bryan Cordyack writes, ""Steinbeck was attacked as a propagandist and a socialist from both the left and the right of the political spectrum. The most fervent of these attacks came"
"Meridian (novel) Meridian is a 1976 novel by American author Alice Walker. It has been described as Walker's ""meditation on the modern civil rights movement."" ""Meridian"" is about Meridian Hill, a young black woman in the late 1960s who is attending college as she embraces the civil rights movement at a time when the movement becomes violent. The story follows her life into the 1970s through a relationship that ultimately fails, and her continued efforts to support the movement. Set in the 1960s and 1970s, ""Meridian"" centers on Meridian Hill, a student at the fictitious Saxon College, who becomes active"
"thrust that is the substance of the novel's initial and persisting ability to engender controversy. In 2002, Styron received the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation's Witness to Justice Award. ""Sophie's Choice"" has been banned in some high schools in the United States. For instance, the book was pulled from the La Mirada High School Library in California by the Norwalk-La Mirada High School District in 2002 because of a parent's complaint about its sexual content. However, a year after students protested and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sent a letter to the school district requesting that the district reverse its"
"adults with a window through which they can view the world, and which will help them to grow and understand themselves and their role in society. Cormier won the annual award in 1991, citing ""The Chocolate War""; ""I Am the Cheese""; and ""After the First Death"". ""The Chocolate War"" has been challenged in various libraries and schools for its language and its depictions of sexual activity, secret societies, and anarchic students. Between 1990 and 2000 it was the fourth most-frequently challenged book in the US, according to the American Library Association. ""I Am the Cheese"" (1977), which was named to"
"race war that Manson believed would occur, which in turn took its name from the song ""Helter Skelter"" by The Beatles. Manson had been particularly fascinated by the Beatles' ""White Album"", from which the song came. ""Helter Skelter"" was first published in the United States in 1974 and became a bestseller. The book won the 1975 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime book, and was the basis for two television films, released in 1976 and 2004. At the time of Bugliosi's death in 2015, it had sold over seven million copies, making it the best-selling true crime book in history."
"Our Racial Divide"", expanded on the history of anti-black racism and retaliation in the United States. ""White Rage"" became a New York Times Best Seller, and was listed as a notable book of 2016 by ""The New York Times"", ""The Washington Post"", ""The Boston Globe"", and the ""Chicago Review of Books"". ""White Rage"" was also listed by ""The New York Times"" as an Editors' Choice, and won the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. Anderson has discussed the historical context of voter suppression in relation to alleged intimidation of minority voters during the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. She"
"popular. On the other hand, she has been criticised for views on class and race in her private writings and published works. Like many of her contemporaries, some of her writing is now considered offensive. As a result, she is considered polarising, a revolutionary feminist and socialist hero or a purveyor of hate speech. Works such as ""A Room of One's Own"" (1929) and ""Three Guineas"" (1938) are frequently taught as icons of feminist literature in courses that would be very critical of some of her views expressed elsewhere. She has also been the recipient of considerable homophobic and misogynist"