Leonardo exhibit grapples with a tricky question: What should be done with historical but racially insensitive objects?
Stereotypical depictions of people of color “create biases that exist today,” says executive director of the Utah Black Chamber.
(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Copies of the children's books "Little Black Sambo" and "Beauty and the Beast" are displayed March 25 in The Leonardo's exhibit "Sorting Out Race," a collection of vintage and antique objects that display stereotypical racial imagery. People may write these objects off as "kitsch," but as America scrutinizes its racism, past and present, everything from salt shakers to state flags are becoming increasingly fraught for people of color.