The third episode of the You Must Remember This podcast series on Disney’s Song of the South is out. This installment focuses on the iconic song from the film, Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah, and its roots in black-face minstrelsy. Song of the South was Disney’s attempt to paint the Reconstruction Era as a happy time for ex-slaves, as long as they stayed on the plantation with the white people who had owned them. This is another interesting episode
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