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Priya Walia

Texas Reclassifying Book On Colonization As Fiction: 'Threat To The Freedom To Read'

A Texas county's decision to reclassify a historical account of Indigenous colonization as fiction has sparked outrage among anti-censorship advocates, book publisher Penguin Random House and the wider literary community.

The controversy centers around Montgomery County. A citizens review panel in the Houston suburb recently voted to place Linda Coombs' book, "Colonization, and the Wampanoag Story," in the fiction section of children's libraries.

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