Banned books in Tucson.

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Tucson, Arizona

After the Tucson Unified School District voted to ban Mexican American Studies and went as far as to go into classrooms and remove books, students organized a walkout. The district has banned such acclaimed books as Drown, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz; Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel; The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven...

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