In "The Princess and the Frog: Rewriting Jazz Age History and Culture," the author says that "setting the film in the Jazz Age without truly dealing with the implications that would have for Tiana and other black characters could clearly have negative impacts on how the audience perceives history and, in fact, the present. The interracial marriage of the film would have been illegal in New Orleans in the 1920s. The friendship between the rich heiress Charlotte and the poor Tiana would be extremely unlikely. The world in which different races and members of different classes intermingle as they do in the film was not the world of the South. Disney, more or less intentionally, wants to have its cake and eat it too - to romanticize and modernize the Jazz Age of New Orleans without acknowledging the negative parts of that history beyond a few lines or set pieces." Do you think it's reasonable to expect a Disney film set in an actual historical context to be historically accurate? Why or why not? Compare with Our Dancing Daughters, which was made during the period and only reflects a narrow part of US culture: white, wealthy, urban elites.

In "The Princess and the Frog: Rewriting Jazz Age History and Culture," the author says that "setting the film in the Jazz Age without truly dealing with the implications that would have for Tiana and other black characters could clearly have negative impacts on how the audience perceives history and, in fact, the present. The interracial marriage of the film would have been illegal in New Orleans in the 1920s. The friendship between the rich heiress Charlotte and the poor Tiana would be extremely unlikely. The world in which different races and members of different classes intermingle as they do in the film was not the world of the South. Disney, more or less intentionally, wants to have its cake and eat it too - to romanticize and modernize the Jazz Age of New Orleans without acknowledging the negative parts of that history beyond a few lines or set pieces." Do you think it's reasonable to expect a Disney film set in an actual historical context to be historically accurate? Why or why not? Compare with Our Dancing Daughters, which was made during the period and only reflects a narrow part of US culture: white, wealthy, urban elites.