A Problem of Illustration: Race, Ethnicity and Beauty in Fairy Tales

Recently there has been a good bit of  ugly online  backlash  against the casting of actors of color in two films based on iconic tales —-Amazon Prime’s   “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, “  and Disney’s live-action remake of   Hans Christian Anderson’s “The Little Mermaid.”   These  objections are not…