Laura Ingalls Wilder's name nixed from major children's book award over 'stereotypical attitudes' in 'Little House on the Prairie' novels - NY Daily News
'“It would be easy to take these books off the shelf, to say that they – like many books of their time – were steeped in white supremacy and racism and therefore they do not belong in our canon,” James Noonan, a research affiliate with the Justice In Schools project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, wrote on the university’s website. “It would also be easy to read all of the pages full of wonder and wild adventure and a family’s love and skip over the parts that inconveniently don’t fit that narrative. '
' Instead, I am trying a middle path.”'
[–] toobaditworks [S] 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
“It would be easy to take these books off the shelf, to say that they – like many books of their time – were steeped in white supremacy and racism and therefore they do not belong in our canon,” James Noonan, a research affiliate with the Justice In Schools project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, wrote on the university’s website.
https://scholar.harvard.edu/jmnoonan/blog/reading-racism-or-how-i%E2%80%99m-learning-wrestle-little-house-prairie
And because the stories are so colorful and told with the wide-eyed wonder of a child, it’s also easy to be blindsided by the racism.
[–] WalkerFuenteWalther 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
In 100 years, these people will be forgotten, but kids will still be reading Laura Ingalls Wilder's books.
[–] toobaditworks [S] ago
28 cards of hate. All the cards are labeled with wondrous things white people have achieved.
[–] 77377 2 points -2 points 0 points (+0|-2) ago
Laura wilder was a tranny or he'd have never,gotten famous.