Yeah, the blackface routine was excruciatingly cringe-worthy, :(
I know that the warning from the aged Indian was stereotypical, but I also kind of wondered if it was true that a big winter came every 70 years (or whatever it was)?
See, but I don't know how I would rewrite Little House, or if I would want to. They were written by a white woman who actually lived in the Midwestern United States, and it's about her life from her point of view. Yeah, there's some racist shit going on there. Would I prefer a "de-racialized" version instead? Actually, maybe I'll get to that in later posts....Some guy apparently wrote his own Little House series, in which Laura, living in Mansfield, takes up the causes of various oppressed peoples, in ways she never actually did in real life.
As for children's literature....I guess I would definitely say that if people were using novels to instruct children's worldviews (which I think is a pretty weird thing to do, personally), I would definitely not allow these books to stand alone or even be heavily emphasized as a representation of life in the late 19th century.
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I know that the warning from the aged Indian was stereotypical, but I also kind of wondered if it was true that a big winter came every 70 years (or whatever it was)?
See, but I don't know how I would rewrite Little House, or if I would want to. They were written by a white woman who actually lived in the Midwestern United States, and it's about her life from her point of view. Yeah, there's some racist shit going on there. Would I prefer a "de-racialized" version instead?
Actually, maybe I'll get to that in later posts....Some guy apparently wrote his own Little House series, in which Laura, living in Mansfield, takes up the causes of various oppressed peoples, in ways she never actually did in real life.
As for children's literature....I guess I would definitely say that if people were using novels to instruct children's worldviews (which I think is a pretty weird thing to do, personally), I would definitely not allow these books to stand alone or even be heavily emphasized as a representation of life in the late 19th century.