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Brazil’s unparalleled spate of book bans is page out of US culture wars
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A series of bans on volumes with race, gender and LGBTQ+ themes have proliferated in recent years
It started with a social media video: a school principal from a medium-sized Brazilian city lashed out against an award-winning novel, saying it was “disgusting” and disrespectful of “good manners”.
The next day, the local department of education ordered all schools in nearby cities to remove the book from their libraries.
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