"Admittedly, I hoped that the newest live-action adaptation would follow in the footsteps of Annie (released earlier this year), and continue the tradition of the Cinderella I knew and loved. Instead the cast is nearly completely white, and normally, I wouldn’t care because white casts are not something that is new to Hollywood. ET documented their “Top 7 Cinderella Movies,” and only two of them starred women of color: Selena Gomez and Brandy. And even though there have been many gains in the portrayal of women and specifically women of color (thank you, Shonda Rhimes) in media, with this version of Cinderella, I felt the erasure and the stark reminder of just how far we have to go.
This new Cinderella is just the latest representation of the ways in which we systematically deny women of color visibility in the media...
Disney’s official lineup of princesses includes nine white women, one Black woman, one Asian woman, one Native American woman, and one Middle Eastern/North African woman. The tokenization of various racial minorities does not lend itself to wide and meaningful representation; the race of each non-white princess becomes her defining characteristic."http://feministing.com/2015/03/17/this-is-not-my-cinderella/
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