Ironically my own HS curriculum had us both read <i>The Adventures of Tom Sawyer</i> and watch <i>Gone With the Wind</i> precisely <i>because</i> of their racist content (that is, as a way of understanding and critiquing racism in everyday culture).<p>I can totally understand bringing TKAM down a few notches in the canon, and bringing some of the many, many neglected works by authors of color to the fore. But even the thought of outright <i>banning</i> from the curriculum would have been seen as quite regressive indeed, at the time.<p>It's ironic to think "how far" we've come since then.