{"id":3673,"date":"2011-04-06T19:25:07","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T19:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=1037"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:21:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:21:32","slug":"huckleberry-finn-the-robot-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2011\/04\/06\/huckleberry-finn-the-robot-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Huckleberry Finn, the robot edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2011\/02\/10\/huckleberry-finn-the.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1038\" title=\"huckrobot\" src=\"http:\/\/jessyrandall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/huckrobot.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" \/><\/a>When NewSouthBooks had the great idea of replacing the n-word in Huckleberry Finn with &#8220;slave,&#8221; Gabriel Diani and Etta Devine though that wasn&#8217;t going far enough. They figure it would be even better to remove race altogether from the novel. So now Jim will be a robot.<\/p>\n<p>One note from defensive librarian me: the video states &#8220;Librarians, like the sexy one in this picture, have been banning the book from their libraries for over a century.&#8221; To be more exact, <em>school<\/em> libraries usually have been the site of the battle against Huck Finn, and school librarians have usually argued <em>against<\/em> banning the book. But yeah &#8230; we&#8217;re sexy.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect this video was filmed in a bookstore, not a library, but the endless shelves of books are true eye candy!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/waitingforhungry.blogspot.com\/\">David Weinstock<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\">BoingBoing<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When NewSouthBooks had the great idea of replacing the n-word in Huckleberry Finn with &#8220;slave,&#8221; Gabriel Diani and Etta Devine though that wasn&#8217;t going far enough. They figure it would be even better to remove race altogether from the novel. So now Jim will be a robot. One note from defensive librarian me: the video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-Xf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4115,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673\/revisions\/4115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}