What about Disney movies?
- Research conducted by Lippi-Green (2012)
In a nutshell, the groundbreaking research shows that....
- Characters with strongly positive actions speak the mainstream variety of English
- Characters with strongly negative actions/motivations often speak varieties of marginalized groups (e.g. Afro American/Arabic accents)
- Important side note
: "Even when stereotyping is not overtly negative, it is confining and misleading." (p.101)