{"id":1362,"date":"2012-10-26T04:30:39","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T11:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcs.org\/archive-2017\/?p=1362"},"modified":"2012-10-25T21:39:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T04:39:25","slug":"princess-sofia-and-barack-obama-why-i-must-choose-accordingly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/2012\/10\/26\/princess-sofia-and-barack-obama-why-i-must-choose-accordingly\/","title":{"rendered":"Princess Sofia and Barack Obama: Why I Must Choose Accordingly"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Nicole Guidotti-Hernandez
\nFor The Feminist Wire<\/em><\/a> (10\/23\/12)\"Disney's<\/a><\/p>\n

Is it a coincidence that Disney launched the promotional campaign for its first Hispanic Princess Sofia weeks before the 2012 Presidential election? Maybe. But I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help but ponder the larger implications of thinking through \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hispanic\u00e2\u20ac\u009d activists being \u00e2\u20ac\u0153pissed\u00e2\u20ac\u009d about the new Disney princess not debuting in a feature film without linking it to Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fluctuating position on immigration.<\/p>\n

In a time of crisis, where numerous Latino children and their families are targets for deportation and criminalized for their brown skin, Princess Sofia is a distraction. Historically speaking, Sofia might be Disney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first princess, but there are other famous and royals and Sofias who carry Hispanic herencia, including Sof\u00c3\u00ada, current Reina de Espa\u00c3\u00b1a and Sof\u00c3\u00ada Vergara, Columbian comedienne, reina of ABC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Modern Family, and how could we forget the reina of Tejano music, Selena as a part of this amalgam. Thus, we might read Disney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Princess Sofia as a intertextual citation of these three reinas, and a means of creating a Diva figure for Latina\/o youth to emulate and identify with.<\/p>\n

As scholar Deborah Paredez has noted about youth who perform the Latina Diva\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s legacy through song and affect, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153donning the outfit of a diva\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6harnesses the power of Selena\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s embodiment of becoming to convey her own non-traditional, non-white budding sexuality.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d3 But here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the hitch with Princess Sofia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Diva pose: instead of proposing brown skin as a positive, and potentially boundary-breaking figure that disrupts normativity, her whiteness and accidental Princessness (she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s adopted and saved by a royal family) recapitulate to the original and somewhat false signification of whiteness associated with la reinaSof\u00c3\u00ada and Espa\u00c3\u00b1a and not necessarily the other versions of being a queen posed by Vergara and Selena.<\/p>\n

Original article continues at The Feminist Wire<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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By Nicole Guidotti-Hernandez For The Feminist Wire (10\/23\/12) Is it a coincidence that Disney launched the promotional campaign for its first Hispanic Princess Sofia weeks before the 2012 Presidential election? Maybe. 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