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An American high school has banned Mark Twain's novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn because its use of the N-word was not "inclusive" and made students uncomfortable.
Friends' Central School in Philadelphia said American literature students would no longer be required to study the text because its negative impact on the community outweighed its literary benefits.
The Quaker school said the book would remain in its library.
The American novel, written in 1884, is about a boy named Huck Finn who fakes his own death to escape his violent father and then goes down the Mississippi River with an escaped slave.
The decision to ban the book for students aged 16 and 17 came after a students and faculty forum, local media reported.
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Friends' Central School in Philadelphia said American literature students would no longer be required to study the text because its negative impact on the community outweighed its literary benefits.
The Quaker school said the book would remain in its library.
The American novel, written in 1884, is about a boy named Huck Finn who fakes his own death to escape his violent father and then goes down the Mississippi River with an escaped slave.
The decision to ban the book for students aged 16 and 17 came after a students and faculty forum, local media reported.
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