American book burning, 2025 version

Here is a list of the books removed earlier this month from the shelves of the Nimitz Library at the US Naval Academy in Maryland. The list is helpfully provided by the Department of Defense.

Among the 381 dangerous books removed are the following:

316 Kate Normington, Gender and medieval drama (2004). Contents described as: mysteries and miracle-plays, English–History and criticism.; Christianity and literature–England–History–To 1500.; Christian drama, English (Middle)–History and criticism.; Women and literature–England–History–To 1500.; English drama–To 1500–History and criticism.; Bible plays, English–History and criticism.; Corpus Christi Festival–England.; Gender identity in literature.; Sex role in literature.; Women in literature.

358 Jennifer Finney Boylan, Good boy: my life in seven dogs (2021). Contents: Novelists, American–20th century–Biography.; Transgender people–United States–Biography.; Dog owners–United States–Biography.; Dogs–United States–Biography.; Human-animal relationships.

335 Geraldine Brooks, Horse (2022). Content: Race horses–Fiction.; Slavery–Fiction.; Racism–Fiction.; African American horsemen and horsewomen–Fiction.; Painting–Fiction.; Horses in art–Fiction.; Kentucky–Fiction.

99 Katherine W. Jones, Accent on privilege: English identities and anglophilia in the U.S. 2001). Content: British Americans–Ethnic identity.; British Americans–Race identity.; British Americans–Social conditions.; United States–Ethnic relations.; United States–Race relations.; National characteristics, British.; Great Britain–Foreign public opinion, American.; Racism–United States.; Social status–United States.; Sex role–United States.

150 Jane E. Dabel, A respectable woman: the public roles of African American women in 19th-century New York (2008). Contents: African American women–New York (State)–New York–Social conditions–19th century.; African American women–New York (State)–New York–History–19th century.; African American women–New York (State)–New York–Political activity–History–19th century.; Sex role–New York (State)–New York–History–19th century.; Women’s rights–New York (State)–New York–History–19th century.; Community life–New York (State)–New York–History–19th century.; Racism–New York (State)–New York–History–19th century

154 Madeline Y. Hsu, The good immigrants: how the yellow peril became the model minority (2015). Contents: Chinese Americans–History.; Chinese Americans–Cultural assimilation.; Chinese Americans–Ethnic identity.; Racism–Political aspects–United States.; Political refugees–United States-History.; United States–Ethnic relations–History.; United States–Race relations–History.; United States–Emigration and immigration–Government policy–History.; China–Emigration and
immigration–History.

221 Jenny Nordberg, The underground girls of Kabul : in search of a hidden resistance in Afghanistan (2014). Contents: Gender identity–Afghanistan.; Sex role–Afghanistan.; Male impersonators–Afghanistan.; Women–Afghanistan–Social conditions.; Girls–Afghanistan–Social conditions

305 Judith Holland Sarnecki and Ingeborg Majer O’Sickey (eds.), Subversive subjects : reading Marguerite Yourcenar (c2004). Contents: Yourcenar, Marguerite–Criticism and interpretation.; Gender identity in literature

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