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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Celebrate your freedom to read during Banned Books Week by joining us for this discussion at Tualatin Library: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Tuesday, October 2</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">7:00pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Recent efforts to remove the “n” word in literature—from the new edition of Mark Twain’s Huck Finn in which the word is changed to “slave” to the attempt to halt a high school production of August Wilson’s Joe
Turner’s Come and Gone because of what some considered offensive language—raise questions about censorship:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Is censorship ever a good thing?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">• Should accommodations be made considering the
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="color:black">Reed College professor Pancho Savery will facilitate a discussion that examines these questions, as well as how language is used in Twain’s and Wilson’s texts. This program is presented
as part of the Oregon Humanities’ Conversation Project. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Jerianne Thompson, Public Services Supervisor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Tualatin Public Library
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif"">18878 SW Martinazzi Ave.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif"">Tualatin, OR 97062<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Garamond","serif"">503.691.3063<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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