Location
DePauw Libraries, Roy O. West Library Wood Study
Start Date
29-11-2023 1:40 PM
End Date
29-11-2023 1:50 PM
Presentation Type
Essay
Description
Looking to theme parks in the 1990s in Virginia, one can see the attempt to implement racial history in the conversation of everyday life. Coupled with changing educational standards, there was an obvious attempt to acknowledge the dark parts of America’s past. However, theme parks and the education department faced pushback when that reality was too real and uncomfortable for people to want to talk about.
Included in
Disney, Slavery, and Education: How the Conversation of Racial History Influenced the Depiction of Uncomfortable Historical Realities
DePauw Libraries, Roy O. West Library Wood Study
Looking to theme parks in the 1990s in Virginia, one can see the attempt to implement racial history in the conversation of everyday life. Coupled with changing educational standards, there was an obvious attempt to acknowledge the dark parts of America’s past. However, theme parks and the education department faced pushback when that reality was too real and uncomfortable for people to want to talk about.
Comments
Prepared as part of Dr. Barbara Whitehead's HIST 490: History Senior Seminar