Communication and Media Culture

Communications Professor Comments on Recent Book Banning

Fatima Shaik, assistant professor in the department of communication and media culture, wrote an article, “Books Like These are Meant to be Troubling,” which was published on the PEN American Center website. It is a response to the actions of a school district in Virginia which took Huckleberry Finn and To Kill A Mockingbird out of classrooms because of a parent complaint of racist language.

Read Shaik’s opinion on this controversial move.