The Princess and the Frog
by
Moon Charania and Wendy Simonds
| August 5, 2010
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Summer 2010
Despite being marketed as the first black princess cartoon, Disney’s The Princess and the Frog fails to challenge gender and race stereotypes. Charania and Simonds provide detailed commentary and illuminate how the film merely reworks and disguises old, familiar themes.
Authors
Moon Charania is in the gender and sexuality studies department at Tulane University. She studies visual culture, transnational feminism, and the politics of postcolonialism.
Wendy Simonds is in the sociology department at Georgia State University and is the co-author of Laboring On: Birth in Transition in the United States.
