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The “Sorting Out Race” exhibit features 130 artifacts that display racial imagery, all sourced from thrift store donations. Upon entering, one will find images ranging from lightly insensitive to fiercely
These stereotypes were frequently depicted in advertising or marketing materials, old collectibles, salt and pepper shakers, or vintage children's books
Salt Lake City museum examines artifacts deemed racist KOLBIE PETERSON, The Salt Lake Tribune April 4, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Often considered collectable by vintage sellers, objects that display racial imagery can be found on kitchen tables, in pantries, on sports jerseys, in boxes of your grandma’s old knickknacks and in secondhand stores. And now, they can also be found at The Leonardo. In one case at the museum sits a 1930s edition of “Snake Eyes,” billed as “a lively party game.” The box features caricatures of a Black man and woman, with exaggerated...
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 scrutiniz...