Racism In Disney's Fantasia

The centaur scene in Disney's highly acclaimed cartoon Fantasia (1940) clearly communicates gendered expectations for men and women, but there are also racial politics. First, note that, in the film as released, all of the centaurs end up in color-matched heterosexual pairs:



Also, most people do not know that the original centaur scene included a pickaninny slave to the centaur females:



Below are parts of the original centaur scene (in three clips) that have since been suppressed:







Don't miss our post showing bugs bunny in blackface, too.