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There has been a lot of angry ink spilled over Disney’s new racial reimagining of Snow White as No White this past week. The classic fairy tale heroine with “skin as white as snow” has been recast in the studio’s latest deliberately unwatchable movie as an angry Marxist mestizo who earned her soubriquet from being born in a severe snowstorm instead. (more…)
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As the Queen worked, gazing at times out on the snow, she pricked her finger, and there fell from it three drops of blood on the snow. And when she saw how bright and red it looked, she said to herself, “Oh, that I had a child as white as snow . . .” — The Brothers Grimm, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”
Hey white boy, what you doin’ uptown? — Lou Reed, “Waiting for the Man” (more…)
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50 Classic Tales: The Western Folk and Fairy Tale Tradition is a collection of classic European folk stories published by The White People’s Press which offers not only the stories themselves, but the vital ethno-cultural context from which they sprang.
In this volume’s invaluable Introduction, translator Paul Marlais outlines a brief history of the folk tale within the proto-European and Indo-European traditions, which stretch back into the misty remembrances of pre-history. He underscores the value of these stories as entertainment, morality fables, and cultural artifacts. (more…)