Disney's Disembodied Black Characters
From The Princess and the Frog to Soul, Hope Wabuke asks why can't Disney let Black characters play Black characters?
Hope Wabuke is a poet, writer, and an assistant professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is the author of several collections of poetry and the forthcoming memoir Please Don’t Kill My Black Son Please; she has also won awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for Women Writers, Cave Canem, VONA, and elsewhere.
From The Princess and the Frog to Soul, Hope Wabuke asks why can't Disney let Black characters play Black characters?
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