The Seminal Autobiography of Maya Angelou, “I know why the cage bird sings”, and books on the holocaust were included on the list of 381 pounds of the navy which were deleted from the Nimitz library of the American Academy of the US Nimitz on the diversity, equity and inclusion of campus because their subject.
President Trump published a decree in January which prohibited the DEI documents in kindergarten to the 12th year education, but the secretary of the Defense Bureau, Pete Hegseth, informed the Naval Academy on March 28 that he intended to apply for school also, even if it is a college.
The list also includes “commemorating the holocaust”, Janet Jacobs’ examination of women’s representations in the holocaust and “how to be anti-racist” by Ibram X. Kendi. “The Making of Black Lives Matter” are also listed, by Christopher J. LeBron; “How does racism take place”, by George Lipsitz; “The Fire This Time”, edited by Jesmyn Ward; “The myth of equality”, by Ken Wytsma; Studies of Ku Klux Klan and the history of lynching in America.
The list also includes books on gender and sexuality, such as “Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersx” by Elizabeth Reis, and “Between XX and XY: Intersxuality and the myth of two sexes” by Gerald N. Callahan. President Trump published a separate decree in January proclaiming that there are only two sexes.
The inclusion of Maya Angelou’s most sold memories was notable because it has long been considered by black women and men as transformers. The book, which spent two years on the New York Times bestsellers list and was nominated for a national prize, recounts its fight against racism and trauma, including its story of rape at the age of 7 by the boy’s boyfriend. Oprah Winfrey said she had been moved to learn from the book that another black girl had suffered sexual abuse. “I read these words and I thought,” Someone knows who I am, “she said.
The Naval Academy began to draw books from the shelves at the Nimitz Library on Monday evening and largely completed the task before Mr. Hegseth visited the aspirants on the campus on Tuesday afternoon.
Helene Cooper Contributed reports.
