How Reconstruction Fantasy “Song of the South” Became “Splash Mountain” by Dropping All the Black People

Here is the last episode of the podcast Six Degrees of Song of the South which is devoted to the Disney Reconstruction fantasy Song of the South. While Disney had to kill off the overtly racist film, it wurvives as a ride: Splash Mountain. Find out the convoluted path this ride took to completion, and how it writes out black people entirely from its revised story line.

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Author: Patrick Young

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