NPR’s Guy Raz visited a Target in Washington, D.C. and checked up on sales of the doll based on Tiana from The Princess And The Frog . He says: …Most of the shoppers looking for Tiana dolls are African-American mothers, but Disney reports brisk sales of Tiana nationwide and not just at urban retail stores. But for the moms and aunts and grandmothers we met at this Target, we heard the same thing as Gwen Arnold told us: Tiana isn’t just a doll; she’s a symbol. One baby-boomer aged woman looking for a The Princess And The Frog doll notes that when she was growing up, “[There] was just one type of doll, just the white dolls. …
