Racial Themes

Books Banned for Racial Themes

8 books · 50 total challenges

BANNED 10 challenges

The Vanishing Half

by Brit Bennett

A multigenerational saga about identical twin sisters from a small Southern Black community, one of whom secretly passes...

Sexual ContentRacial ThemesLGBTQ+ Content
BANNED 8 challenges

The Sun Is Also a Star

by Nicola Yoon

A love story between Natasha, a Jamaican American girl facing deportation, and Daniel, a Korean American boy, over the c...

Sexual ContentProfanityRacial Themes
BANNED 7 challenges

Punching the Air

by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam

A novel-in-verse about Amal Shahid, a Black Muslim teenager wrongfully convicted of a crime and sent to a juvenile deten...

ViolenceProfanityRacial Themes
BANNED 7 challenges

The Weight of Blood

by Tiffany D. Jackson

A reimagining of Stephen King's Carrie set in a small Georgia town, exploring race, identity, and violence when the scho...

ViolenceRacial ThemesSexual Content
BANNED 6 challenges

Dread Nation

by Justina Ireland

An alternate history where the dead rose at the Battle of Gettysburg, and Black and Indigenous children are conscripted ...

ViolenceRacial ThemesProfanity
BANNED 4 challenges

Riot Baby

by Tochi Onyebuchi

A speculative novella about a Black woman with telekinetic powers and her incarcerated brother, spanning from the 1992 L...

ViolenceRacial ThemesProfanity
BANNED 4 challenges

Rural Voices

by Nora Shalaway Carpenter

An anthology of stories, poems, and comics by YA authors set in rural America, featuring diverse characters including LG...

LGBTQ+ ContentSexual ContentRacial Themes
BANNED 4 challenges

We Are Not Free

by Traci Chee

A novel told through the voices of fourteen Japanese American teenagers forcibly relocated to internment camps during Wo...

ViolenceRacial ThemesProfanity