Why do we struggle with admitting how pain and love are entangled in cherished artifacts of our childhood? In this talk, I argue that confronting this fact is the best way to dismantle the White-supremacist delusion of “cancel culture,” to develop more complex relationships with favorite works of our youth and to create a more inclusive, diverse culture for contemporary children.

This series is a partnership between the National Humanities Center and the National Council for the Social Studies and is generously sponsored by the Library of Congress' Teaching for Primary Sources grant program. 

Presenter

Philip Nel, University Distinguished Professor of English, Kansas State University

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