| Penny Proud | |
|---|---|
| The Proud Family / The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder character | |
| First appearance | ""Bring It On" The Proud Family |
| Created by | Bruce W. Smith |
| Voiced by | Kyla Pratt (2001-2005, 2022-Present) |
| In-universe information | |
| Species | Human |
| Gender | Female |
| Family |
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| Significant other | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Brown (boyfriend) [a] |
| Home | Smithville |
| Nationality | African-American |
| Abilities | x |
Penny Proud is a fictional character who serves as the main protagonist of the Disney Channel animated series The Proud Family and its revival, The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder.. She is voiced by Kyla Pratt in both series and in the 2005 film, The Proud Family Movie.[1]
[1] https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/characters/Proud-Family/Penny-Proud/
She was the first-ever Black female protagonist in a Disney series. - p. 355, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17482798.2015.1127835?casa_token=f48hdHejwtsAAAAA:6VMHkveHGX9s257XrvBbksIzCaa7ZnKYjQZPy921-AIi6KKV5YwAAa90czBh3U3XyiC-6hbnHV0
The most recent addition to Disney’s line-up of African American women characters appear in Bruce W. Smith’s Proud Family (2001 to 2005). Four of the six characters including the main character Penny Proud are women. Not surprisingly the lone black family to have a show on the Disney channel was created by one of the studios few African American animators. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12111-010-9139-9
Penny is
Use for information: The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder, The Proud Family, The Proud Family Movie
originally posted about it here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Black Lives Matter#Q1 collaboration? (specifically here: https://en.wikipedia.orgview_html.php?sq=Google&lang=en&q=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Black_Lives_Matter/Archive_2)
use as sources: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=%22Penny+Proud%22
"For instance, in October 2001 the Disney Channel aired an episode of the Proud Family, a cartoon series aimed at the pre-teen audience, where the heroine Penny Proud realises the dark side of file-trading after she has been threatened with arrest by the police, been deprived of her computer and found that her local store had gone out of business (Wired News, 2001)"- p. 355, https://web.archive.org/web/20190430112920/https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-0-387-35695-2_22.pdf
results in here: https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=A6DUBQAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=%22penny+proud%22&ots=hSyt5lv_DU&sig=DvED0ieyxTjlAYPkw5PIgNCxNW0#v=onepage&q=%22penny%20proud%22&f=false https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=S1uQBQAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA172&dq=%22penny+proud%22&ots=G03Os97rDr&sig=4XYfEIHH-ff5Sz_C8f-YSibwijU#v=onepage&q=%22penny%20proud%22&f=false
if translated: https://monografias.ufop.br/bitstream/35400000/1674/6/MONOGRAFIA_TianaConstru%C3%A7%C3%B5esRepresenta%C3%A7%C3%B5es.pdf
"While there are tweens of color represented within popular culture, such as Raven on the Disney Channel show That’s So Raven and Penny Proud on the Disney cartoon Proud Family, tweens are still overwhelmingly depicted as white"- p. 21, https://www.proquest.com/docview/305033390?pq-origsite=gscholar&fromopenview=true
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