So at the moment I'm doing some "secondary research" on Disney and Diversity. So far I've only located two articles.
The first is called "Black Princess Joins Disney Royal Line" by Susan E. McGregor. It basically answered my first question. Why has it taken until 2010 for Disney to have an African-American princess?
The article said that when questioned why there weren't any African-American princess' Disney simply stated that "There are no African-American fairy tales." I thought long and hard about the answer they provided, and have yet to come to a conclusion of whether or not this is an acceptable answer.
This article also said that a woman who visited the Disney Theme Park was so disturbed by the fact that there were no Disney princess' who were African-American, that she began an online petition to the company.
The second article was called "Snow Whitey? Stereotyping in the Magic Kingdom" by Gail Robertson. This article basically provided a list of Disney movies and how each character stereotyped a race, gender, or religion in the real world. The way the characters represented real people seems cruel now.
To continue some more research I'm going to view some Disney movies and analyze them.
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