Asha is the first mixed race/biracial Disney heroine. Being of North African-Iberian ancestry. Asha is the second Black Disney Princess after Tiana. Asha is the fourth Disney Princess to have freckles after Rapunzel, Merida, Elsa, and Anna.
Although he is much more than a representational milestone, it's noteworthy that Ethan is the first biracial queer teenage main character in an animated Disney film.
Well, from what I have learned, Snow White is German, Cinderella is French, Aurora is British, Ariel is Danish, Belle is French, Jasmine is Middle Eastern (supposedly Arabian, but I dunno), Pocahontas is Native American, Mulan is Chinese, Tiana is African-American, Rapunzel is German, Merida is Scottish, Anna and Elsa ...
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.
According to a Disney spokeswoman, Sofia has a mixed fairy-tale heritage; her mother and father are from Galdiz (which is based on Spain) and Freezenburg (which is based on Scandinavia), respectively.
When Will We See a Mixed Race Disney Princess? A View From the Inside w/ Olivia Williamson
What is Elena of Avalor's race?
Working at the intersection of Media Studies, Latina/o Studies, and Girls' Studies, this dissertation explores Disney's contemporary construction of Latinidad by focusing on Elena of Avalor, Disney's first Latina princess.
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. It's a debate that has fueled speculation that in Hollywood, Indians and Arabs are interchangeable.
Moana as she appears in Moana (2016). Inspired by Polynesian mythology, Moana is depicted as the strong-willed daughter of a chief of a Polynesian village, who is chosen by the ocean itself to reunite a mystical relic with the goddess Te Fiti.
Disney's Ariel is not the same as Anderson's little mermaid. The movie is loosely based on the fairy tale, so Disney has the freedom to give Ariel any skin color they want. In the 1989 movie, Ariel was born in the fictional underwater kingdom of Atlantica, which technically makes her Atlantican, not Danish.
There are currently only seven Caucasian Disney Princesses: Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora, Ariel, Belle, Rapunzel, and Merida. Snow White and Rapunzel are German. Cinderella, Aurora, and Belle are French.
(For an interesting video about the relationship between the Sami, Norway, and the making of Frozen 2, click here.) Anna and Elsa are not white either. They are Northuldra raised Arendellian, aka Native Raised Other. Regardless of where they end up by the end of the movie, they are and always will be Native women.
Disney Pixar is featuring its first non-binary character in the studio's latest movie, Elemental. The film, which was directed by The Good Dinosaur's Peter Sohn, is set in a fictional location - called Element City - where the four elements - fire, water, land and air - live and work together.
Jasmine, Pocahontas, Mulan, Tiana, and Moana have touched hearts as our five princesses of color. But they are vastly outnumbered, not just by the seven European princesses, but by many other Disney films that feature white main characters. Our first princess of color, Jasmine, was a huge success.
But Tiana, Disney's first Black animated protagonist, would be onscreen for just about 40 minutes. More shockingly, she would be drawn as a Black woman for just 17 of those minutes.
Elena of Avalor is an American animated television series created by Craig Gerber that premiered on Disney Channel on July 22, 2016, and moved to Disney Junior on July 14, 2018. The series features Aimee Carrero as the voice of Elena, Disney's first Latina princess.
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.
If you mean American Indian, then that would be Pocahontas. The only other Disney character I know of close to India's Indian would be the Jasmine character but I believe she considered to be more a Middle eastern character. There is also Jungle Book which takes place in India, but there isn't really a princess in it.
In the new remake of Aladdin, it suggests that princess Jasmine is half Indian. For starters, Naomi Scott, the actress playing princess Jasmine is half Indian. The story was first contested in Syria, in an Arabic oral form. Aladdin and Yasmine are Arabic names, but that doesn't say much about their ethnicities.
Queen Miranda (voiced by Sara Ramirez) – Born Miranda Cordova, she is Sofia's mother, Roland's current wife, and the stepmother of the royal twins. She was a widowed cobbler until she married King Roland.
Her name is Elena, and she hails from Avalor — a fictional place that draws from several real-world cultures. Elena is Latina. Which makes her the animation giant's first-ever Latina princess.
The thirteen characters in the franchise consist of Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora, Ariel, Belle, Jasmine, Pocahontas, Mulan, Tiana, Rapunzel, Merida, Moana, and Raya.
