fairfolio
Saved Projects
← Back to Explore

Appropriation of African American Culture in Disney Animated Films

JSHS · 2023

Isabella L. Singleton, Mr. Daniel Coapstick · Stuttgart High School, APO, AE

Overview

Over the past 30 years racial representation amongst Disney animated films have changed significantly, becoming more inclusive and diverse. This study aims to understand the cultural accuracies and inaccuracies in Disney’s proclaimed diversification of its animated fi lms. Using the Research of Colin Roedl, Jennifer Barker, Richard Breaux, Megan Condis, Zelda and Sarita Gregory, this project aims to “dig a little deeper” in African American representation in Disney Animated films. Specifi cally looking at The Princess and the Frog, Soul, and Spies in Disguise. This study aims to answer, “Are African American Leads the Film’s Protagonist as promoted, or do they lose focus after turning into an animal? This will be done close examination of the Disney Animated films featuring an African American lead stated above. DODEA PACIFIC

Competition history

  • JSHS 2023 Category not listed

Resources

Related projects

Closest projects by meaning, across every fair and year in the corpus.

Source: Junior Science and Humanities Symposium

Save projects to your library

Sign in with Google to keep track of projects you find interesting, organized into folders. An account also raises your daily allowance for “Has this been done?”, and lets you create a key for the MCP server with a much higher limit than anonymous use. Browsing stays public.

Continue with Google