{"id":6593,"date":"2013-03-15T13:59:13","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T17:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.cos.ucf.edu\/?p=6593"},"modified":"2013-03-15T13:59:13","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T17:59:13","slug":"diversity-in-disney-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/diversity-in-disney-films\/","title":{"rendered":"Diversity in Disney Films"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dr. Kimiko Akita<\/strong>\u2019s essay, \u201cA \u2018Vexing Implication\u2019: Siamese Cats and Orientalist Mischief-Making,\u201d was published recently in the scholarly book, \u201c<em>Diversity in Disney Films: Critical Essays on Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality, and Disability<\/em>.\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2013\/03\/Disney_Cover.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6685\" alt=\"Disney_Cover\" src=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2013\/03\/Disney_Cover.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Her essay critiques, scene by scene, the saturation of anti-Asian bias in the depiction of the animated cats Si and Am in the classic 1955 Disney film\u00a0<em>Lady and the Tramp<\/em>\u00a0and its legacy in media representations of the \u201cOriental\u201d since then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Kimiko Akita\u2019s essay, \u201cA \u2018Vexing Implication\u2019: Siamese Cats and Orientalist Mischief-Making,\u201d was published recently in the scholarly book, \u201cDiversity in Disney Films: Critical Essays on Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality, and Disability.\u201d\u00a0 Her essay critiques, scene by scene, the saturation of anti-Asian bias in the depiction of the animated cats Si and Am in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":6685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-communication"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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