Several Librarians contributed to this answer.
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You might try contacting the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom (http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/intellectual.htm). I didn't catch anything by skimming through their web site quickly (and searching the ALA site is a pain, as you may have noticed), but they do keep track of challenges and might have some records (or at least ideas of where to look) that might be useful.
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In Library Literature, the search: multicultural* and attack* gets 2 hits; multicultur* and collection* gets 56 hits but may miss the mark on this one.
In ERIC, possible searches include: multicultur* and librar* and politic* (32 hits). Lexis Academic is a much trickier source on this one - the Legal Research / Law Reviews ? all aval dates search: ethnic! and (challenged books or challenged materials) gets 12 hits, possibly worth looking into a couple of them:
Copyright (c) 1983 Texas Law Review Texas Law Review, October, 1983, 62 Tex. L. Rev. 197, 48339 words, ARTICLE: The Search for Constitutional Limits on Governmental Authority to Inculcate Youth., Tyll van Geel*;
and POSSIBLY - Copyright (c) 1987 Michigan Law Review Michigan Law Review, November, 1987, 86 Mich. L. Rev. 266, 40013 words, ARTICLE: SYMBOLS, PERCEPTIONS, AND DOCTRINAL ILLUSIONS: ESTABLISHMENT NEUTRALITY AND THE "NO ENDORSEMENT" TEST., Steven D. Smith
Still in Lexis Academic/Legal Res/Law reviews / All years, the search: immigrant! and (challenged books or challenged materials) seems less promising; it gets 12 hits, but "challenged materials" seems to be mostly LEGAL materials, etc. in specific trials. Possibly a search in Lexis / Legal News would help; but figuring out a strategy is even dicier there: challenged books gets only 5 hits in ALL years, full text. Before trying Legal News, I would first try: challenged books in General News/Major Papers - 67 hits in "all dates"/"Headline, Lead Paragraph..."
Lexis involves a lot of plowing through text (and references if you look at Law Reviews), but the "KWIC" format will usually tell you if an article or review is worth looking through.
