Is Their Eyes Were Watching God banned?

In this catalog the primary documented status is “at risk” in United States, 1997. That is not a worldwide ban. Scope and sources are listed below.

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At risk

Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Zora Neale Hurston

Janie Crawford tells her path toward autonomy, love, and a voice of her own in the American South.

First publication: 1937
Publisher: J. B. Lippincott
Original language: English
ISBN-10: 0061120065
ISBN-13: 9780061120060
ASIN: 0061120065

Why was Their Eyes Were Watching God challenged?

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston is in this catalog because a sourced record documents an at-risk action in United States in 1997. The novel was challenged at a Virginia high school for its language and sexual content.

The catalog records the scope as school. That is not a claim that the book is banned everywhere, or that a failed complaint has the same force as a prohibition. Open the sources under Bans and restrictions. Unsourced rumors are omitted.

Readers who search “why was Their Eyes Were Watching God banned” should read the status label first. Banned, restricted, and at risk are defined on the methodology page and are not interchangeable.

Bans and restrictions

At risk United States 1997
At risk · School
The novel was challenged at a Virginia high school for its language and sexual content.
Local challenge documented by the ALA.
- Source → Banned & Challenged Classics American Library Association