tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25806438.post7190343938903071796..comments2024-01-26T09:29:04.765-08:00Comments on My American Meltingpot: Little Black Sambo Gets Reinvented as a White GirlProfessor Tharpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04714326142739366426noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25806438.post-66215026291847310792008-02-03T05:25:00.000-08:002008-02-03T05:25:00.000-08:00Have you seen Julius Lester's Sam and the Tigers? ...Have you seen Julius Lester's <I>Sam and the Tigers</I>? I blogged about it last year <A HREF="http://awrungsponge.blogspot.com/2006/11/sam-and-tigers.html" REL="nofollow">here.</A> I like it a lot. I had the same feeling about Sambo growing up. It's the racist stereotypes that used it and the terminology. The story itself, as retold by Lester, is really quite powerful. Christopher Bing did a version too.Andromeda Jazmonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12355192738014962965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25806438.post-20473165628649520162007-12-14T09:08:00.000-08:002007-12-14T09:08:00.000-08:00Hi Me,I would just add that a lot of those Sambo-e...Hi Me,<BR/><BR/>I would just add that a lot of those Sambo-esque images that are mostly gone from the U.S are still in play in many other countries.<BR/><BR/>I am continually amazed and disheartened to read about other countries where those stereotypically racist images are still a part of pop culture.Mes Deux Centshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10697034868111011343noreply@blogger.com