It will be character day at school (where all the teachers and pupils dress up as an character), and it would be nice for an ethic/afro-caribbean teacher to represent....!
All we can seem to come up with is Pochahontas again this year..surely there are more?
2006-11-08 08:29:01 · 16 answers · asked by *Twinkle* 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Comics & Animation
ananci the spider.. Jamaican or African tale about a black widow spider
my brothers favourite book when he was 7
2006-11-08 08:36:21 · answer #1 · answered by garethcooperwales 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jasmine? Gretel from Hansel and such. Wow. I see why this is so tough. Storybook characters are so (no offense intended to anyone) white bread! Maybe instead of trying to represent her ethnic type she should go way OUT of type and be Snow White or Raggedy Ann and someone "white bread" (blond, blue eyed) should be Pochanantas to show that you don't have to be typecast. Momma Bear is also "ethnic" and she is brown. You know of the three bears. I'm sorry. I seem to be reaching now. Good luck!
PS I love someone's Mulan suggestion and I actually thought of Little Black Sambo who was Indian, I think, as in from India. I still have my copy of that book from over 50 years ago!
2006-11-08 16:39:04 · answer #2 · answered by AKA FrogButt 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
How about Lilo. Wow! What a hard question actually! I have loads of multi-racial, multi-ethnic story books and loads of other stuff, but none of the "popular" stories that I can think of (or have) have coloured, black or other ethnic backgrounded people taking the main role. I have one book about a birthday party where all the main nursery rhyme characters you can think about attend the party and in this they are all white apart from Cinderella. She is brown!
2006-11-08 16:50:52 · answer #3 · answered by Clare 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know of a book that got really bad press from African-Americans, but the story is about a little black boy who outsmarts creatures much bigger and stronger than he is, and he ends up saving himself and his family. You would think that a story like that would be a favorite to read to black children, but it is virtually banned everywhere because the name of the title character is Sambo.
It seems like throwing the baby out with the bathwater to ban a good book because another group used the title in a bad way.
2006-11-08 16:45:19 · answer #4 · answered by Nosy Parker 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Princess Jasmine
2006-11-08 16:32:15 · answer #5 · answered by Jazzys_mom 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Princess Jasmine
Mulan
Mogli
2006-11-08 17:26:11 · answer #6 · answered by tristans2022 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Princess Jasmine or Mulin is the only ethnic story book characters I can think of, but they are cute and pretty.
2006-11-08 17:13:18 · answer #7 · answered by ♥♥Bree♥♥ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Jungle Book?
2006-11-08 16:39:45 · answer #8 · answered by Clive 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Patel sisters in Harry Potter
2006-11-08 16:33:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mulan, Mowgli, Sinbad, Aladdin, Lilo...hmm harder than i thought. I think if i gave it some thought i could probably think of animals from films etc who are 'black' characters or represent certain ethnic groups but i don't think they'd be particularly useful.
how about the woman from the tom and jerry cartoons who always beat tom with her broom?
2006-11-10 12:29:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
sorry, no. My culture was destroyed by invaders....ooops what a coincidence and where did pochahontas end up? Oh yes, about 50 miles away
2006-11-08 16:38:10 · answer #11 · answered by Peter_Botting 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋