Disney has a new princess!! The Frog Princess, Maddy, is the latest in the Disney Princess line-up that includes Snow White, Belle (from Beauty & the Beast), Cinderella, Ariel (The Little Mermaid), and Sleeping Beauty...did I forget somebody? The new movie is going to be set in New Orleans. Not exactly crazy about the name "Maddy" though.
This is a good thing in light of the "Black Doll/White Doll Experiment" that has been revisited from a 1940s experiment on black children's doll preferences. Overwhelmingly black children recently chose white dolls over black dolls saying among other things, the black dolls were "bad" and the white dolls were "good".
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=2553348&page=1
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Introducing Princess Maddy
Disney has a new princess!! The Frog Princess, Maddy, is the latest in the Disney Princess line-up that includes Snow White, Belle (from Beauty & the Beast), Cinderella, Ariel (The Little Mermaid), and Sleeping Beauty...did I forget somebody? The new movie is going to be set in New Orleans. Not exactly crazy about the name "Maddy" though.
This is a good thing in light of the "Black Doll/White Doll Experiment" that has been revisited from a 1940s experiment on black children's doll preferences. Overwhelmingly black children recently chose white dolls over black dolls saying among other things, the black dolls were "bad" and the white dolls were "good".
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=2553348&page=1
