The race issue (as well as the homophobia with Scar & general conservative & patriarchal politics on The Lion King) has been addressed in a number of popular press articles as well as some conference papers. It will be gone over again, hopefully using a different and useful angle, in a paper I'm giving at the upcoming Society for Animation Studies conference in Madison at the end of September. As far as I know, there's been nothing academic published on the topic, though there's an article in Camera Obscura #31 by Erin Addison on race & gender in Aladdin. Besides that, there's little focusing on animation & race, an issue that my conference paper grapples with (plug plug plug!). -Jason Mittell ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]