[aisle] I am angry

Tue Sep 21 06:31:56 CDT 2021

I was just notified by email that my district got this as well.  Have to
let my principal know by 9:00 am if we have any of these texts.
Fun times.

On Tue, Sep 21, 2021, 6:17 AM Megan Flaherty via AISLE <
aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> I didn’t get this (yet) but agree that it is frightening. I am beefing up
> my collection development policy in case these titles, or ones like them,
> are challenged.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Sep 20, 2021, at 7:01 PM, Kiss, Susan via AISLE <
> aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>
> 
> Same here.
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* AISLE <aisle-bounces at list.railslibraries.info> on behalf of
> Andrea Ross via AISLE <aisle at list.railslibraries.info>
> *Sent:* Monday, September 20, 2021 3:26 PM
> *To:* AISLE-Share: Association of Illinois School Library Educators
> discussion list <aisle at list.railslibraries.info>
> *Cc:* Andrea Ross <alross at saltcreek48.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [aisle] I am angry
>
> Yes, our district received this as well and our librarians were asked to
> inform administration which of these books we had.
>
> Andrea Ross
> Salt Creek School
> Elmhurst, IL
>
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 3:19 PM BROOKE NELSON via AISLE <
> aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
>
> Hi BrianTrust,
>
> Please talk me down. I just got this request from my Sup. I looked up the
> company and it is hugely problematic. Has anyone else gotten this? (See
> below)
>
> *I am writing to you on behalf of LocalLabs which is an online publication
> that reports on and informs the public about local government activities.
> If you are not the FOIA officer please forward it to the FOIA officer or
> reply to this email with the correct FOIA contact.*
>
> *Pursuant to the Illinois Freedom of Information Act, I
> am requesting electronic records (preferably non-PDF such as CSV, Excel) of
> the following:*
>
>    - *A list of all materials in your district that fall under the 1619
>    project. *
>
> *For reference, the 1619 project contains works with the following titles
> and authors: "America Wasn't a Democracy Until Black Americans Made It
> One", essay by Nikole Hannah-Jones*
>
>    - *"American Capitalism Is Brutal. You Can Trace That to the
>    Plantation", essay by Matthew Desmond*
>    - *"How False Beliefs in Physical Racial Difference Still Live in
>    Medicine Today", essay by Linda Villarosa*
>    - *"What the Reactionary Politics of 2019 Owe to the Politics of
>    Slavery", essay by Jamelle Bouie*
>    - *"Why Is Everyone Always Stealing Black Music?", essay by Wesley
>    Morris*
>    - *"How Segregation Caused Your Traffic Jam", essay by Kevin Kruse*
>    - *"Why Doesn't America Have Universal Healthcare? One Word: Race",
>    essay by Jeneen Interlandi*
>    - *"Why American Prisons Owe Their Cruelty to Slavery", essay by Bryan
>    Stevenson*
>    - *"The Barbaric History of Sugar in America", essay by Khalil Gibran
>    Muhammad*
>    - *"How America's Vast Racial Wealth Gap Grew: By Plunder", essay by
>    Trymaine Lee*
>    - *"Their Ancestors Were Enslaved by Law. Now They're Lawyers", photo
>    essay by Djeneba Aduayom, with text from Nikole Hannah-Jones and Wadzanai
>    Mhute*
>    - *"A New Literary Timeline of African-American History", a collection
>    of original poems and stories*
>       - *Clint Smith on the Middle Passage*
>       - *Yusef Komunyakaa on Crispus Attucks*
>       - *Eve L. Ewing on Phillis Wheatley*
>       - *Reginald Dwayne Betts on the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793*
>       - *Barry Jenkins on Gabriel's Rebellion*
>       - *Jesmyn Ward on the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves*
>       - *Tyehimba Jess on Black Seminoles*
>       - *Darryl Pinckney on the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863*
>       - *ZZ Packer on the New Orleans massacre of 1866*
>       - *Yaa Gyasi on the Tuskegee syphilis experiment*
>       - *Jacqueline Woodson on Sgt. Isaac Woodard*
>       - *Joshua Bennett on the Black Panther Party*
>       - *Lynn Nottage on the birth of hip-hop*
>       - *Kiese Laymon on the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s “rainbow coalition”
>       speech*
>       - *Clint Smith on the Superdome after Hurricane Katrina*
>
>
>    - *A list of all books written by authors Ibram X. Kendi (aka Henry
>    Rogers) or Robin DiAngelo that are used in curriculum or libraries in your
>    school district.*
>
>
> --
> Brooke Nelson
> Library Media Specialist
> East Peoria Community High School
> 309.694.8338
>
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