‘Maus,’ Pulitzer Prize-winning book about Holocaust, is pulled from Tennessee school district

School board officials objected to profanities and a nude image in the acclaimed graphic novel by Art Spiegelman.

A Tennessee school board voted to remove “Maus,” a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, from the district’s curriculum after officials objected to eight instances of profanity and an image of a nude woman.

The McMinn County Board of Education’s Jan. 10 vote to remove the novel, published by cartoonist Art Spiegelman about his Jewish parents’ experiences in Nazi concentration camps, was 10-0, according to meeting minutes.

The district had sought to use the novel, first serialized in 1980 and later published in two volumes, as an “anchor text” for eighth graders studying the Holocaust. “Maus” won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992.

The vote, which comes amid a series of efforts in Republican states to ban schools from teaching books about racism and sexuality, was first reported by the Tennessee Holler, a local news outlet.

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