erasure

“The Wayfinder” is a story of cultural erasure wrapped into a fantastical fable.

But his whitewashing campaign — or, more precisely, his White racial erasure project — does not exist in a vacuum.

“These latest attempts to sanitize and reshape history to fit a narrow ideological narrative amount to nothing less than the erasure of history,” said JANM’s President and Chief Executive Ann Burroughs.

The United States National Park Service began scrubbing its exhibits about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad, but public pressure reversed that erasure.

The city’s approach to preservation and cultural representation has historically involved erasure of uncomfortable truths, particularly regarding indigenous history and the trauma of European colonization.