By: Kamal Apatira When Disney’s The Princess and the Frog premiered in 2009, little black girls around the world were elated because for the first time ever, there was a Disney princess that they could identify with. Little girls, including my sister, bought tickets and flooded the theaters to show support for the film. This is just one example of how, even for children, representation in media matters for Black people. The media today fails to correctly represent the world around us and as a result, black people must take any victory that they can as they are far and few between. This victory some years later would be tainted as Disney took its one Black princess and decided to lighten her skin and give her whiter features. When Wreck it Ralph aired its princess trailer for its sequel, viewers young and old were excited to see what the film was to bring to the big screen. This specific princess trailer was Disney attempting to show that it was ready to move away from the ster
By Yongjie Li When I firstly asked Americans about the impressions of Asians, Kung Fu and Jackie Chen are the things that they came to their minds. In fact, it cannot fully represent Asians, especially in recent developing years. According to government datas, the number of Asian Americans in USA is 21.4 million in 2016 and 6.4% of total populations (Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, 2018), however, they are invisible in media. In order to better analysis of this situation, the impacts and stereotypes of Asians are the focuses especially in the movie Crazy Rich Asians. Both of typical Asians and the tag of them is unchangeable during centuries. During 1840s, Fu Manchu and Charlie Chan were famous persons for Americans and represented the feminization of Asian American men, while Asian females were depicted as hypersexuality (Chyng, 2015). During 1970s, due to influences of Bruce Lee, Kung Fu became another tag on them (Chyng, 2015). Unfortunately, based on t