There are currently only five non-Caucasian Disney Princesses: Jasmine, Pocahontas, Mulan, Tiana and Moana. Jasmine is Arabian. Pocahontas is Native American.
In a study I conducted of 10 original animated Disney movies, 91 percent of the main characters were Caucasian, and in 10 of the newest films, 63 percent were still Caucasian.
In Disney's nearly 100-year history, there has been only one Black Disney princess — Princess Tiana in “The Princess and the Frog,” a 2009 animated feature starring Anika Noni Rose.
If you were a child of color growing up with the release of these movies, relating to one of the Princesses was much harder because of the appearance differences. Since most of the Disney princesses were white, ethnic watchers struggled to look up to them because they did not identify with them.
Mulan (Chinese) and Pocahontas (Native American) are not the only princesses of color. Esmeralda, Moana and Tiana join the Disney Princesses of Color Group.
As can be seen in the image above, the only racial princesses Disney has advertised are Mulan, Pocahontas, Tiana, and Jasmine. Mulan is Chinese, Tiana is African American, Pocahontas is Native American, and Jasmine is Indian.
Disney Brunettes: Jasmine, Belle, Snow White, Tiana, Mulan, Pocahontas & more! Animoguls .
With her appearance finalized, Jasmine became Disney's first non-white princess as opposed to being of European heritage.
If you look up a list of Disney princesses, you would see just four non-white characters: Mulan, Tianna, Jasmine and Pocahontas.
Moana is the second princess after Pocahontas to be the daughter of a chief. Moana is the second princess after Merida not to have a love interest. Moana is the fifth non-Caucasian princess. Moana is also the second protagonist to be Polynesian descent, after Lilo Pelekai from Lilo & Stich.
Tiana is recognized for being Disney's first African American princess. As the film's writers and directors, Clements and Musker claim that their decision to depict Tiana as an African American young woman came naturally simply as a result of the location in which the story takes place.
Rapunzel is a German fairy tale about a young woman named Rapunzel with impossibly long hair and who lives alone in a tower, held captive by a witch. It's also the German name of a vegetable commonly used in salads.
Elena de Avalor is Disney's first Latina princess.
Rapunzel
Rapunzel was dangerously naive. Like, the most naive of all the naive princess. Which, yes, one should expect from someone who spent her entire life locked in a tower. But that means when Rapunzel was finally out in the world, she had to rely on a random dude to rescue her.
And he's no foreigner abroad either: he's a native Chinese boy, not an Arabian youth who's ended up in China. (Nor is he an orphan: in the earliest versions of the story, Aladdin is not an orphaned street urchin but a lazy boy living at home with his mother.)
Her country of origin, for example, has been frequently disputed. While some claim Jasmine is Arab because the movie opens with a song called Arabian Nights, others believe that the architecture in Agrabah is clearly based on the Taj Mahal, making Jasmine Indian.
Mulan, Pocahontas, Moana and now, wait for it… Mira.
Princess Merida is the protagonist of Disney•Pixar's 2012 animated feature film, Brave. She is a Scottish princess from the kingdom of DunBroch, the daughter of Queen Elinor and King Fergus, and the older sister of Harris, Hubert, and Hamish.
Although Elsa is not the only character with disability in the Disney canon, she is the first princess 1 to be designed with disability in mind, and one of only two human characters with visible disability to make the cut at all since Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996).
Disney Princesses is the fastest-growing brand for the company's Consumer Products division. Disney introduced its first non-white animated heroine in 1992's “Aladdin”: a Middle Eastern character named Jasmine.
Cinderella
As one of the most well-loved and iconic Disney princesses of all time, Cinderella was kind, friendly, and optimistic.
We all know in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Snow White is the fairest of them all but how about we compare that with the other Disney Princesses. Starting from Disney's first ever animated full lenght feature film to the present.
Are there any curvy Disney princesses? Traditionally, curvy Disney characters have been kept as sidekicks, villains, or other supporting characters. There has yet to be a 'curvy' lead princess although they are being portrayed less as thin and with more average body types in recent films.