Charleston City Paper

‘Black Mermaids’ exhibition offers 120 works to combat ‘Disney cutesieness’

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X "Oya" (above) by Ashley Brown is just one of more than 100 works of art in Celebrating Black ...
Yahoo

Disney's Black mermaid is no breakthrough – just look at the literary subgenre of Black mermaid fiction

A coffin made to resemble a mermaid at a Ga funeral. The Ga people live along the southeast coast of Ghana. Eye Ubiquitous/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Mermaids have become a cultural ...
Salon

Disney’s Black mermaid is no breakthrough — look at the literary subgenre of Black mermaid fiction

Mermaids have become a cultural phenomenon, and clashes about mermaids and race have spilled out into the open. This is most pointedly apparent in the backlash over Disney’s much-anticipated “The ...
The Conversation

Disney’s Black mermaid is no breakthrough – just look at the literary subgenre of Black mermaid fiction

Jessica Pressman does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...