The perpetuation in fiction of racial stereotypes... in space!
The Space Jew is an alien, monster, animal, or other nonhuman creature that embodies the worst aspects of a real-world racial, ethnic, or religious stereotype, whether Jewish, black, Asian, white or whatever. Sometimes it's intentional, sometimes it's subconscious and sometimes it's just an unlucky confluence of bad characteristics coupled with a naive creative mind. We're in no place to speculate.
But whatever the reason, the end result raises hairs on the necks of people worldwide as they wonder "surely that can't be intentional... can it?"
Compare Fantastic Racism, Have You Tried Not Being A Monster?. See also Unfortunate Implications.
Don't mix this trope up with Fantasy Counterpart Culture, which deals with fantasy/sci-fi cultures that stand in for real life cultures but don't necessarily exhibit the stereotypes of whomever they are standing in for.
Not to be confused with Space Amish, Space Cossacks, Space Romans, or actual JEWS IN SPACE!
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Anime and Manga
Gintama has the premise that rather than the Gunboat Diplomacy of history, Edo-era Japan experienced an Alien Invasion. Thus, actual aliens take the place of "nasty gaijin" in wielding disproportionate power over the country.
Comic Books
The Dominators, in DC Comics' Invasion and subsequent appearances. Yellow skin, huge sharp teeth, bony clawed fingers, they resemble nothing so much as the Golden AgeYellow Claw except they have red circles on their foreheads.
Watto, from the prequel films, raised concerns about being a Jewish caricature, being a hook-nosed, penny-pinching trader/slave owner. The voice actor based his performance on Alec Guiness's portrayal of Fagin in the 1948 adaptation of Oliver Twist. Fagin is a rather infamous stereotype of a Greedy Jew. In the second film, Watto even wears a beard and black, Orthodox Jew-style hat! Perhaps to dissuade these accusations, in Star Wars: The Clone Wars the king of Watto's species has a vaguely British accent, and despite his small stature is depicted as a proud warrior. Although Toydarians are all grasping and unpleasant, they are rarely portrayed as outright villains.
The Russian Gag DubStar Wars:Storm in the glass took this even further: Watto has an absurdly thick Hebrew accent, and his shop is called "Mossad Torg" ("torg" is a contraction of the Russian word for "trade").
The Star Wars prequel films also feature the Neimoidians - a race of slit-eyed, inscrutable, unscrupulous villain aliens who speak with a vague Asian accent, wear Qing dynasty robes and hats, and threaten the galaxy with their trade routes and mass production technology. Many English-speaking critics saw the race as a collection of Asian stereotypes. Interestingly every localization of the film gives the species new accents. In Germany, for example, they got French accents.
The Sand People/Tusken Raiders in the original films come across as a violent caricature of desert-dwelling Bedouin-like groups, being low-tech, desert-dwelling nomads wearing robes and head coverings. Lucas apparently intended the species to resemble the depiction of American Indians in old Wild West movies through their violent behavior toward the more technologically advanced settlers. The females also wear papoose boards. Whether Lucas realized the Unfortunate Implications or not is anybody's guess.
Many critics accused Jar Jar Binks of resembling black caricatures in minstrel shows and early American cinema, highlighting his broken English, clumsiness, naivety and shuffling gait, all typical traits of minstrel characters. Physically, he has large nostrils and his "lips" make up half of his face, both traits commonly exaggerated in black caricatures. The Gungan accent, which sounds vaguely Caribbean, doesn't help the issue. Jar-Jar's first lines in the series, "Me-sa your humble servant," call slavery and domestic servitude to mind. The character was voiced and motion-captured by black actor Ahmed Best, who denied any attempt to make Jar Jar a black caricature. The Gungan race as a whole, however, does not embody the trope.
The Clone Wars movie features Jabba's uncle, Ziro the Hutt, who exhibits Camp Gay stereotypes. He's purple, wears feathers and facepaint, owns a nightclub on Coruscant, and talks vaguely like Truman Capote. However, Ziro is as straight as a hermaphrodite can be.
The race of banker goblins shown in the Harry Potter movies are squat, long nosed, and run the banks, leading to comparisons with Jews. And they also believe (stated in The Deathly Hallows) that everything ever made by Goblins really belongs to them, even if humans may think they acquired it.
The Transformers film series features a few robotic examples:
Jazz is a somewhat Jive Turkey Transformer, possibly in reference to Scatman Crothers, who was the original voice of the character in the cartoons. He's also only Autobots who dies. According to at least one interview, Jazz was killed because he was the only Autobot in the movie who hadn't already died at least once. It's also been claimed that it was because Jazz is the third most popular character after Optimus and Bumblebee.
"The Twins," Skids and Mudflap, drew controversy for embodying a number of black stereotypes in their appearance and behavior. Michael Bay alternately claims they were meant to mock wiggers or claims there was no racial parodying going on at all.
In his review of Predator 2, Roger Ebert accused the alien's design, which includes tentacles that resemble dreadlocks, of encouraging the audience to connect its menace with fear of black males. It's rather interesting to note that the second film's hero is a black male, but it also includes a number of dreadlocked black crooks. The Predator is also played by a black actor.
District 9 features the prawns, a race of impoverished aliens living in South Africa who have been herded into ghettos and taken advantage of by the more powerful humans. The government justifies the ghettos, much like they did in apartheid, by claiming that the prawns can't take care of themselves. However, the director has explained that the prawns are members of a "working caste" who can't get anything done without their "leader caste" to direct them. Thus, the government is more or less correct, and prawn society is actually very similar to the racist way that apatheid portrayed black society. It's also worth noting that Christopher and his son, the only prawns with the intelligence or gumption to resist, are a different color than all the other prawns.
Played with in The Brother From Another Planet, in which an alien who looks like a black man escapes slavery on his own planet and tries to hide out in a black ghetto on Earth. When two of his species track him down, they of course look like white men, but it turns out that they consider the "brother" an inferior race not because of his skin color, but because he's got three toes.
The film adaptation of The Chronicles of Narnia depicts the witch's dwarves (except her bodyguard) as Mongols. Not just in the way they dress, but also their faces are decidedly Asian.
The nebulons in Arena (1989) conform to Yiddish stereotypes.
The Gremlins in Gremlins have been accused of displaying negative stereotypical behavior of African-Americans. In one particular scene, unruly Gremlins take over a bar while wearing sunglasses and "street clothing," smoking, drinking, gambling, fighting, listening to wild music, engaging in prostitution, and breakdancing. Critics accused the film of exemplifying white fear of black culture invading white suburbia.
Literature
Terry Pratchett's Discworld series frequently uses Dwarfs and Trolls as stand-ins for any and all oppressed or angry minorities. This can cause much confusion and debate among fans as to which groups they really represent (see the discussion for about two pages of such).
In "The Art of Discworld", Pratchett mentions that there is a (mostly Jewish) group of fans who compare the dwarfs quite favorably to Jews. The author insists that this was not a deliberate parallel, though he has now got used to fans telling him they spotted it. To quote The Art of Discworld: "I was just trying to come up with dwarfs that fitted the modern fantasy tradition but worked.
The early non-Discworld novel The Dark Side of the Sun has a background group of humans named the Whole Erse who sound suspiciously like (negative) stereotypes of the Irish. 'Erse' is a (slightly unfortunate) obsolete term for the Irish language (Gaeilge). Interestingly the Irish are one of the few European groups which seem to have no stand-ins at all on the Disc (they even have a Violent Glaswegian race in the form of the Nac Mac Feegle).
Thud!, a novel about racism and tradition, uses the escalating conflict between the Dwarfs and Trolls to stand in for any number of racially and/or religiously charged real-world conflicts, past and present.
The people of Klatch are Middle-Eastern. They ride camels in a desert setting and are derisively referred to as "Towel Heads." There are also strong hints of India/Pakistan culture in their cuisine and their interaction with the quasi-English inhabitants of Ankh-Morpork. The stereotypes are lampshaded in Jingo when Colon and Nobby go to Klatch. Colon works off of every stereotype Morporkians have about Klatch, while the Klatchians seem to think he's crazy and don't understand where he got all these ideas about their culture.
Battlefield Earth contained an effeminate, weak, but highly intelligent servant race of the evil Psychlos (themselves moneygrubbing, sexist, drug abusing exploiters to a man), known as the Chinko. This was probably intentional, as L. Ron Hubbard said that the main problem he had with China was that it had Chinese living there. (L. Ron used a different word here than "Chinese".) In the film, they were called clinkos, but still had the exact same behavior and voice.
Though Hubbard probably wouldn't have known it, chinko is also the Japanese word for "(small) penis."
That Scientology uses the word "wog", dated but still offensive British slang for someone from the Indian subcontinent, to refer to an unbeliever might be another reflection of Hubbard's views on race.
Later in the novel Hubbard introduces a race of interuniversal bankers that are apparently descended from sharks (or local equivalents). They were short, big-nosed, and thought of nothing but cash, going so far as to attempt to foreclose on the Earth after the humans free it from the Psyklos.
Subverted/Deconstructed in Norman Spinrad's The Iron Dream, a book presented as a work by a science fiction writer named Adolf Hitler, where the Always Chaotic Evil mutants are obvious stand-ins for Russians and/or other ethnic groups, with the worst of the lot clearly stand-ins for Jews. At the end of the book a reviewer rubbishes the idea that Hitler was writing about Jews — after all, no-one would seriously believe that the notoriously anti-Semetic Russian Communists are being controlled by Jews, right?
In Robert Asprin's Myth Adventure fantasy novels, the race of "deveels" are hard-bargaining master traders and look like traditional red-skinned hoofed devils. When Phil Foglio adapted the first tome in the series as a comic book, he tossed in a lot of Jewish references and got hit with enough complaints that he (sort of) apologized in a later issue.
Some readers have identified H.P. Lovecraft's Deep Ones as "water negroes," and their interbreeding with humans is often seen as an allegory for miscegenation. This is one of many examples of racism in Lovecraft's works, who was often outspoken in his beliefs.
Realizing it can't avoid it, Stationery Voyagers runs with this one like it's a marathon baton. A lot of the FantasyCounterpartCultures may also double as Space Romans. Most of the Minshan denominations and Minshanism-based faiths are kept ambiguous (i.e., who's Baptist or Methodist or Lutheran or what-not,) but it's made pretty obvious that the main leaders of the Statonian government are Mormons, who suffer similar criticism as they do in Richard Dutcher's film Brigham City. The Yehtzigs' Religion of Evil serves as a reminder of what can happen at the crossroads of The War on Straw and Political Correctness Gone Mad with actual devil worship.
Mikloche Warriors in training on Whixtitout may have very Minshan (Christian) beliefs about the universe, yet, they tend to live lives with only limited contact with their surrounding culture, fearful of overattachment; and they practice martial arts of the sort expected more of Buddhist or Shinto monks. Made worse when their countryside looks like Medieval Japan.
Mantith generally averts this by virtue of being the most Earth-like. But the Mosquatlons who aren't pagan are usually implied to be Roman Catholic or Russian Orthodox.
"Submicroscopic" by S.P. Meek and its sequel have three factions of aliens differentiated by skin color. One forms the heroes, one's a group of giant but stupid savages that constantly attack them, and one is technologically advanced but ethically stunted. Guess which correspond to which colors? (Admittedly, one of the technologically advanced folk who had a grandparent from the heroic faction is portrayed as a Worthy Opponent, but the protagonist doesn't hesitate to kill him, saying that his death was saddening but necessary.
H. Beam Piper's Space Viking has the Gilgameshers, a mercantile people for whom haggling appears to be the planetary sport (one reviewer noted, "sadly, we are not given glimpses of the Gilgameshers accusing Trask of wanting to starve their wives and children"). It's specifically stated that they deserve admiration for having rebuilt a space-going civilization from the ground up, and "they had religious objections to violence, though they kept these within sensible limits, and were able and willing to fight with fanatical ferocity in defense...." However:
Aside from their propensity for sharp trading, their bigoted refusal to regard anybody not of their creed as more than half human, and the maze of dietary and other taboos in which they hid from others, made them generally disliked.
Dwarves of Lord of the Rings are deliberately based on Jews, as well as those of Norse myths. Tolkien had been reading medieval texts on the subject during their invention. Their language is based on Semitic, and their calendar is based on the Hebrew calendar. One can try to see analogues in the characterization of Dwarves with common perceptions of the Jewish people, such as their hardiness and the fact that they have been dispossessed of their homeland. Tolkien said, "I do think of the 'Dwarves' like Jews: at once native and alien in their habitations, speaking the languages of the country, but with an accent due to their own private tongue." Detractors have accused Tolkien of being anti-semitic because Dwarves are also very fond of gold, but this can simply be traced back to the original dwarfs of traditional mythology and folklore. The author's admiration of the Jewish people is a matter of public record in a famous Take That letter to Nazi publishers (which he wrote in 1938).
Also in the Expanded Universe, come the Ryn, which are basically Space Roma. They travel a lot, love to sing and dance, some fortune telling. The one that Han befriends for a while is even named Droma, which is Roma without the D.
Even weirder are the Muuns, which seem somewhat like space caucasians, given the nasally voices, chalky skin and gangly physique.
Kevin J. Anderson's Massassi may have a name derived from Maasai, but they have red skin, build pyramids, and ultimately exist for the sole purpose of the Sith, who merged their DNA with them in a similar manner as one 19th-century Atlantis myth. The Massassi correspond to the belief that ancient Mayans built their pyramids to serve some superior extraterrestrial power.
Twi'leks are Space Thais. Corresponding to the stereotype of Bangkok as a home of child prostitution, the female Twi'leks we see are often slaves.
The lumpen-nosed, big-eared, insatiably greedy Ferengi are seen by some as antisemitic characters, and their earliest appearances were criticized as being Japanese stereotypes. In reality, the Ferengi were meant to be strawmen for American capitalists in general, and were compared to "Yankee Traders" in their first appearance. The unfortunate comparisons to Jewish stereotypes came in after they were ditched as villains and became comic relief. However, it should be noted that in later series, the trope could by some seen as an inversion, as the four most notable Ferengi characters, Quark, Nog, Rom and Zek, are all played by Jewish actors. Likewise, that their name 'ferengi' is derived from an Arabic and Hindi slur for white people.
The Klingons started out as obviously based upon Cold War stereotypes of Russians or Chinese. The original description for them in the script for their debut episode, "Errand of Mercy", describes them as "Oriental, hard-faced". Their original appearance includes pencil mustaches and a dark complexion. Roddenberry having been a police sergeant in Los Angeles during the 1950s may have something to do with it.
Kivas Fajo, from the Next Generation episode "The Most Toys," is a greedy, amoral trader who specializes in collecting—by whatever means necessary—especially rare and precious items. Fajo was played by the very Jewish Saul Rubinek. This was the result of a last-minute recast after the original Jewish actor, David Rappaport, committed suicide.
The Star Trek TOS episode "Patterns of Force" features a peaceful race called the Zeons who are being scapegoated by the Ekosians. The whole episode is an allegory for the persecution of Jews during the Holocaust. During the episode, The Space Nazis note that Spock's ears are a non-Aryan trait. The name "Zeon" is most likely a play on the word "Zion."
In this case, the Nazi regime was instituted by a Federation professor who wanted to elevate the species. The Ekosians were not originally Nazis.
While Vulcans are not strongly based on any single human culture, Leonard Nimoy did suggest a few Jewish traditions that have become canon aspects of Vulcan culture. The famous "live long and prosper" Vulcan hand gesture was taken from a gesture made during the Priestly Blessing in some Jewish services. The expressions "live long and prosper"/"peace and long life" also resemble the Jewish "peace be upon you"/"upon you be peace".
It has also been suggested that the cool, stoic, yet "passionate on the inside" Vulcans also double as an allegory for the Japanese.
The Vulcans and their cousins the Romulans together fit the longstanding stereotypes about the ancient world, as well: the scientific and philosophical Greeks, who invented logic, are the Vulcans and their less-refined militaristic offshoot culture is Rom(ul)an.
Like the Klingons, the Romulans have bounced from allegory to allegory over the years. In the past they have been equated with North Korea as a cold militaristic society that have both common links with and gross differences from their Japanese/Vulcan counterparts. Some have argued that their Roman-like aspects made them an allegory for the Nazis/fascists who also stole aesthetic elements of the Roman military for their own. In the new Star Trek canon, the Romulans seem to fill the roll of terrorists in general, with the main antagonist declaring Jihad seeking revenge against the Federation and its members.
The Original Series once ridiculed the concept of racial segregation by displaying members of the two races inhabiting the planet Cheron. They were both half black half white (vertically), but with an opposite color pattern. The half-blacks persecuted the half-whites, who in turn launched a permanent uprising against them. To cut the long story short, the two races slaughtered one another. It brings to mind such social phenomena as apartheid, but also the Tutsi-Hutu conflict.
In Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, the wedding episode heavily implies that Lord Zedd is Jewish. The third season Christmas episode "I'm Dreaming Of A White Ranger" features a plot of Zedd's to control the children of the world by taking over Santa's work shop, replacing the toys with brainwashing spinning tops. In other words, the Evil Space Jew plots to ruin Christmas with what could only be described as hypno-dreidels. The putty patrollers are basically golems. They can be defeated by striking the emblem that gives them power, and the original Super Sentai actually calls them golems. Fortunately, the fact that both series producers Haim Saban and Shuki Levy are Jewish means that this was probably done tongue-in-cheek with no real ill will intended.
In the Doctor Who episode "The Long Game", we learn that a consortium of bankers has been covertly manipulating the mass media to control Earth. This is more or less the plot of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. What makes this extra-strange (or something) is that we eventually learn that the Daleks were behind it the whole time.
Opera
Richard Wagner is often accused of this, with entire books dedicated to finding anti-Semitic stereotypes in his operas. Most Wagner scholars today would agree that Klingsor from Parsifal was intended as this trope. Other Wagner villains considered to be Space Jews are the Nibelungs (dwarfs who mine gold underground and are led by the Big Bad), specifically Alberich and Mime, from Der Ring des Nibelungen, though the evidence there is considerably weaker and it's less widely-accepted. The nazis considered Alberich's son, Hagen, who impales Siegfried in the back to retrieve the ring in Götterdämmerung, as a personification of Jews, while they considered Siegfried as a pure Aryan-blooded hero.
The Ferrets are a disgusting culture who look like chimpanzees made up as Prince Charles. They dress in scarves, gold jewelry, vests, and caftans, and often act as travelling thieves, peddlers, or money-lenders. The PR department of the Ferret Corporation is quick to point out that they have no connection with any possible stereotypes of any ancient Earth cultures. None whatsoever. The very idea is insulting. Then they will try to cheat you out of your money, the little bastards.
Warhammer 40.000
The Eldar, though mainly being Space Elves, also display traits that could qualify them as Space Jews, partly to a point where one could suspect a downright anti-Semitic influence in their creation process. They are a spiritual, yet shady and opportunistic race at the brink of extinction after the "Fall" of their old empire for which they were themselves to blame, but still seeing themselves as The Chosen race that will rule the galaxy after the coming of their (new) god.
Aside from being the "Predators of the 40k Universe", the Kroot are heavily based on stereotypical Native Americans in looks, to the point that one of their legendary chief's name translates to "Sitting Krootox". Being of a lower-than-average technology level (albeit still possessing technology from firearms to FTL travel) doesn't make things better. They alsp play on the belief once prevalent in many tribal cultures (most famously the Iroquois) that eating a defeated enemy allows you to absorb their strength. Their Bizarre Alien Biology lets the Kroot absorb DNA from their meals into their own genetic code.
"Together, we will eat them all!"
Video Games
In Mass Effect, the volus are a race of short, weak, and nasally speaking people who live as a "client race" amongst the taller, more militaristic turians. The turians allow the volus to run their finances and commerce in exchange for protection. This is all pretty analogous to the way Jews were viewed in early Christian and Muslim cultures. Several volus are quite shady, feeding into the stereotype of greedy Jewish bankers and crooked merchants. The quarians also seem to be a Fantasy Counterpart Culture blend of Jews and Roma, but (despite enduring more in-universe Fantastic Racism) without the Unfortunate Implications.
Master Of Orion II features the Gnolams, a race of spacefaring traders whose insidiousness, obsession with money, visage and gesturing all hit way too close to home... They were also short of stature with big noses and wore little skullcaps. Moreover, of the various species' "hero lieutenants" the player can hire, the Gnolam example was named "ZOG", which may or may not have been intended as a reference to a delusional Anti-Semitic conspiracy theory. The name was changed in a patch. Even their racial music theme is based on Chassidic dance.
Shareware game Escape Velocity Nova has a side quest about mercenaries from New Ireland, a planet full of Irish colonists, that includes every Oireland stereotype imaginable, as well as some severe Unfortunate Implications when the mercenaries explain why they're so good at guerrilla warfare. The game's creators seem not to have intended any of this to be offensive, as the player's character goes on at length about how much he admires Irish culture.
The Darkspear trolls are obviously inspired by Jamaicans, and pepper their speech with word "mon." The other trolls, particularly the Gurubashi, are spinoffs on Aztecs/Mayans. Their Blood God is a feathered serpent, much like Quetzalcoatl, though ironically Quetzalcoatl was the one Aztec deity thought to oppose human sacrifice. The Sanfury Trolls, on the oher hand, are based on what appear to be ancient Egyptians, with their mummified dead.
Goblins are New Yorkers with New York accents. Their dialogue includes cliches from a variety of common New York ethnicities. They're also short, big-eared, obnoxious voiced, shrewd businessmen. In the Cataclysm expansion, the newly-introduced Bilgewater Cartel resembles the Mafia.
In Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura, gnomes have large noses, tend to be wealthy bankers and statesmen, and were involved in a giant morally depraved conspiracy for personal gain. Coincidence? Maybe.
On the other hand, this might be intentional: it's set in the 19th century, and reads rather like a novel from that time, when pinning such things on the Jews would have been perfectly acceptable.
The Gerudo from the Legend of Zelda series are this (for Bedouin culture) combined with Amazon Brigade. On one hand they are patriarchal and Dark skinned thieves who live in the desert and are considered lower than the Hylians who are "chosen by the gods" they use a moon as their symbol (later changed into a random squiggly thing). On the other hand most of the Gerudo are women, who posses Honor Among Thieves save for the Big Bad.
Many fans speculate that the Cetra (Ancients) of Final Fantasy VII fame are this. These fans use almost any bit of information from the game to support this, from the 'promised land' back story, to Aeris' curls.
Freeza: I can't quite be a racist against a race that doesn't exist. Like the Clorfors. Dirty money-grubbing Clorfors. Tried to clorf me right out of my money. Blew those little bastards up is what I did.
Western Animation
The South Park episode "Cancelled" features a literal version in a race of aliens known as the Joozians, a Planet of Hats people characterized by their gigantic noses, wealth, and control of the intergalactic entertainment business. Kyle, the Jewish kid, is implied to be related to Joozians after discovering that he's the only human in the group who likes their cuisine.
Squidbillies, rather obviously, is about squids who display hillbilly stereotypes.
Futurama has a few intentional examples, played for comedy:
The Native Martians are obvious analogues to Native Americans. They sold their home planet for a bead and are forced into small reservations; Their clothing and speech are based on old Western film cliches. Subverted in that the "bead" was an enormous diamond, which is considered to be worth the planet. They then decide to use the diamond to buy another home planet.
Zoidberg and his Decapoidian species are based on Ashkenazi American Jews. They speak with a thick Yiddish accent, use many Yiddishisms in their speech, and display a number of Jewish stereotypes, such as complaining and being fussy over money. Zoidberg's name is a play on common Jewish names ending in -berg. His profession is also stereotypically Jewish. Likewise, his uncle is an old Borscht Belt-style performer who removed the -berg, just as many Jewish actors hide their heritage when taking stage names. Zoidberg himself is a play on the classic Yiddish concept of the mooching "schnorrer." Ironically, being shellfish-creatures, they're not kosher. In one episode, Zoidberg gets kicked out of a "bot mitzvah" held by overtly Jewish robots.
The Cygnoids are Space Italian-Americans and display some stereotypical Italian-American behavior. Things get a little ironic when a family of Cygnoids open a pizza shop and show a comical level of ignorance about human cuisine and physiology.
Tripping the Rift pretty much runs on Refuge in Audacity and this is pretty much the least offensive thing about the show, but there's at least two species of purple-skinned alien (or possibly sub-species of the same species) that have a lot in common with humans of African ancestry. One is for all intents and purposes basically a typical basketball player (only with chainsaws) and the other looks like 1940s cartoons of black people. Especially "Natives" as opposed to black characters who were born in America.
Fantastic Max had an episode were the characters runs into a group of thieving, flamboyant, swarthy (but in the end, helpful) alien con artists that literally refer to themselves as "Space Gypsies".
In some Golden Age cartoons, crows are portrayed as being African American. Iterestingly, ravens aren't portrayed this way despite having all-black plumage rather like crows.
The two titular gophers of the "Go Go Gophers" segments of Underdog are portrayed as stereotyped Native Americans.
This isn't a good example because in the cartoon they are Indians, just as the uniformed bears are explicitly U.S. Cavalry. It's Funny Animal reality.
Many animal (or otherwise nonhuman) Disney characters are accused of embodying ethnic stereotypes.
The crows from Dumbo (especially the leader, Jim Crow).
Shun Gon the Chinese Siamese cat from The Aristocats, as well as several other Alley Cats.
Sunflower the centaurette from Fantasia. From the waist up, she is a black girl. She's so bad that she got Orwellian Retconned out of the 1969 re-release and all subsequent releases.
The pound dogs and Jock the Scottish Terrier in Lady and the Tramp embodied various ethnic and nationality stereotypes.
Some of the fish in The Little Mermaid during the "Under the Sea" song appear to be black stereotypes, including one fish that looks like a blackface performer.
