A Cambridge University archive will begin slapping “trigger warnings” onto classic children’s books — such as Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird and Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House On The Prairie — over the books’ so-called “harmful content.”
Researchers are reviewing more than 10,000 books and magazines to expose authors who have been “offensive to historically enslaved, colonized or denigrated people,” so that a Cambridge University archive can add warnings to the books regarding their “harmful content relating to slavery, colonialism and racism,” according to a report by Daily Mail.
Offending authors include Harper Lee over her classic novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, and Laura Ingalls Wilder, over her Little House On The Prairie, which is under fire for its “stereotypical depictions of Native Americans.”