Isabel Millan's Lecture.

I really enjoyed this lecture. This wasn't the first time I had heard about the Disney racism. I had actually come across a message board that had some of the top racist Disney characters which I found interesting. Check here. With some of the things I read I found myself getting mad because they are indeed offensive and for Walt Disney to say that those were not their intentions is absolutely absurd. Of course when you are a child you don't look at the movies in the same light that we do now or as we did in class but it's still doesn't make it right to be in the movie. In high school we also had a discussion about some of the Disney channel cartoons with the same depictions about race, sexuality, etc. The media shapes our ideas whether we believe it or not, so we have to be careful of what we are showing children and what they are learning from all types and forms of media.
With the portion of the lecture that dealt with multicultural literature and all types of literature that can be used as learning instruments, we have seen that in past lectures where the children were reading at home all types of things including websites, books, magazines that dealt with their interests and their culture and how it showed that indeed these children were readers that could read and comprehend. All types of different reading materials help in some way to help children develop and perfect their reading skills. The multicultural literature helps keep culture a main priority and helps keep the child interested in reading, in contrast to our Disney movies.