Activist & Political · African American · Animation
“Yeah, but look how far we’ve come”: Disney and the Depiction of Blackness in The Princess and the Frog
Is it inconceivable that instead of taking on the forces of the underworld, the title character, Princess Tiana, do battle with the very real racist prejudice and legal injustice that[…]


William Badger holds an MFA in Fiction from NC State University and an MSt in English Literature from Pembroke College, Oxford. He is currently pursuing a DPhil at Pembroke as a Clarendon Scholar and Browning Senior Scholar in English, exploring representations of witchcraft in early modern drama. He also studies and writes about film.





