Vibeke Sofie Sandager Rønnedal

Listen to a podcast on how we make sense of all the historical images that are fired at us all the time, and whether we ever stop to ask who is creating them and for what purpose.

Racial prejudice in many Nordic children’s classics can be overt or more subtly embedded. The republishing of some of these controversial books in e.g. Sweden and Iceland discloses contemporary views of race and reveals how the past is positioned in contemporary Nordic society.