Imagined Wests (Preview)
Preview: Season 12 Episode 5 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
The Autry Museum is working to recontextualize a large 1980s mural.
Southern California’s Autry Museum of the American West is working to recontextualize a large mural from the Disney Imagineers-designed museum's opening in the 1980s. It depicts a widely accepted mythology of the West, which prioritizes white settler colonialism at the expense of other perspectives including those of Native Americans, Black settlers, Asian Americans and women.
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Imagined Wests (Preview)
Preview: Season 12 Episode 5 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Southern California’s Autry Museum of the American West is working to recontextualize a large mural from the Disney Imagineers-designed museum's opening in the 1980s. It depicts a widely accepted mythology of the West, which prioritizes white settler colonialism at the expense of other perspectives including those of Native Americans, Black settlers, Asian Americans and women.
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