Tiana Becomes Disney’s First Black Princess
AS America talks about race and race and the need not to talk about race, Disneyland introduces its first black princess.
Our Man in LA pays Princess Tiana a visit:
Posters are up and products are on sale at the park, promoting the animated feature, The Princess and The Frog, and the character Princess Tiana.
Tiana will be the ninth of Disney princess characters, which have rung up $3 billion in retail sales since 1999. Disney introduced the Middle Eastern Jasmine, its first non-white animated heroine in 1992’s Aladdin: a Middle Eastern character named Jasmine. Three years later an American Indian princess appeared in Pocahontas.
The Broadway musical-style film is set in New Orleans during the Jazz Age. It opens in New York and Los Angeles November 25th and goes into wide release December 11th. Disneyland opened in 1955. The Walt Disney Company announced it had begun work on an animated featuring its first black princess on March 12, 2007. Barack Obama had announced his candidacy for President on February 10th.
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October 20th, 2009 at 10:31 am
And a hunchfront.
Phwooooarrrrrr!
October 20th, 2009 at 10:18 am
It’s high time we had a princess with a club foot
October 20th, 2009 at 9:25 am
The Shrek people have already done the morbidly obese one. Look forward to the cartoon version of ‘Tommy’ with Princess Thomasina in the lead role next