Why Disney’s Splash Mountain Has Finally Gone South
The Disney Theme Parks are dismantling the decades-long ride Splash Mountain. It will be resurrected as Tiana’s Bijour Adventure. Why has the Song of the South-inspired ride finally gone South?
Jason Sperb
I am the author of 'Disney's Most Notorious Film: Race, Convergence
and the Hidden Histories of Song of the South' (University of Texas
Press, 2012) and several other books and essays on film and media
history. I currently teach in the English Department at Oklahoma
State University.