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Jennifer Fleeger

Jennifer Fleeger is an assistant professor in the Department of Media and Communication Studies at Ursinus College and the author of Mismatched Women: The Siren’s Song Through the Machine and Sounding American: Hollywood, Opera, and Jazz, both published by Oxford University Press. icon

Zootopia

Policing the Borders of “Zootopia”

By Jennifer Fleeger

Popular children’s literature and cinema tend to confront racism by using fanciful zoological metaphors to deliver two important messages ...

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