Must schools choose between dead white men and pop culture YA novels? | Opinion
have been deemed a biased collection of racist and misogynist works by European males; and we have dropped our expectations of readers lower and lower each year until we ask little more of today’s students than to read excerpts from contemporary works.
First, we have to realize that this debate is far from new, going back at least to Jonathan Swift in his 1697 essay “Battle of the Books.” This satire is set in a king’s library. The modern books charge at the ancient books to capture their prized position on Mount Parnassus, threatening to level the mountain, if they have to. The metaphor here is a mountain of sacred knowledge, the home of the muses, and the moderns are willing to lower the heights of this place to win preeminence.
This list became the “canon,” as we refer to it today. When it was updated in 1990, four women were added and no writers of color. Adler defended his decision, saying in ainterview, “Before the 19th century, for instance, there were almost no women and Black writers.” Anika Prather of Johns Hopkins University has publicly detailed her transition from a public school teacher who considered the classical traditionto finding it a wealth of resources for freedom of thought and liberation, specifically for Black people.
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