Disney's announcement that it would transform its longstanding Splash Mountain ride into Tiana's Bayou Adventure was made in June 2020.
With Princess Tiana, Walt Disney World president Jeff Vahle cheers during a "Thank You Fête" honoring cast members at a preview event for Tiana's Bayou Adventure at the Magic Kingdom in Bay Lake, Fla., Monday, June 10, 2024.
For little Black girls, Tiana has meant a lot. When a little child can see somebody who looks like them, that matters," said Neal Lester, an English professor at Arizona State University, who has written about Tiana. Disney has been criticized for racist tropes in films made in earlier decades. The crow characters from the 1941 film "Dumbo" and the King Louie character from 1967's "The Jungle Book" were viewed as African American caricatures. The depiction of Native Americans in the 1953 movie "Peter Pan" and the Siamese cats — often deemed as Asian stereotypes — from the 1955 film "Lady and the Tramp" also have been derided.
"We might see the impulse to replace rather than dismantle or build anew as a metaphor for structural racism, too," Kapurch said. "Again, this is unintentional on Disney's part, but the observation gets to the heart of how Disney reflects America back to itself." It's also important for the Imagineers to tell a variety of stories for its global audience, said Charita Carter, an executive creative producer at Walt Disney Imagineering who oversaw the development of the attraction.
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