By Princess WeekesDec 21st, 2020, 5:29 pm
As
Soul heads to Disney+ on December 25th, it has brought to life many conversations about the history of Black people in animation. Especially the tendency to turn Black characters into animals and other inhuman things. It is a part of
Soul as well and sadly one of the things that makes me anxious about the film.
Andrew Tejada, writing for Tor.com, breaks down the disappointment about Tiana, Disney’s first Black American princess being a frog for half the time and how it meant to Black viewers to be denied their place in animation. While that is changing, movies like