Professors Claim Disney's 'Lion King' and Other Animated Films Promote White Privilege in New Analysis

Three academics analyzed Oscar-nominated animated films from 2016-2024 using a racism test they developedThree professors argue that animated Hollywood films promote White privilege and "racist cultural narratives," according to their new academic analysis. Natalie Khazaal, director of the Middle Eastern and North African studies programs and associate professor of Arabic at Georgia Tech, Ellen Gorsevski, associate professor at Bowling Green, and Tobias Linné, head of the communication department at Lund University in Sweden, recently co-authored a paper lamenting racism and White privilege in Hollywood animated films. The analysis, published Jan. 6, is titled "Media Analysis of Racism and Speciesism (MARS)...