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[[Image:lbs.jpg|thumb|right|300px| the original cover of Little Black Sambo.]]

[[Image:lbs.jpg|thumb|right|300px| the original cover of Little Black Sambo.]]

'''The Story of Little Black Sambo''' is a short [[children]]'s book<ref>It has only 1,089 words.</ref> by Helen Bannerman, a [[Scottish]] national. Helen Bannerman went on to write many similar books. The book was first published in 1899 and features the hero, Sambo, outwitting four hungry tigers by trading his colorful clothes and umbrella in return for his safety. The tigers then are defeated by their own vanity, as each bites the next one's tale forming a ring. Objections which surfaced in the mid 20th century<ref> The anti-Little Black Sambo movement started in the 1930s and continued into the 1970s. Black educators and civil rights leaders organized numerous campaigns to get the book banned from public libraries, especially in elementary schools. [http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/picaninny/]</ref> are primarily to the illustrations and to the protagonist's name, not to the story itself.<ref> "Was Bannerman's Little Black Sambo racist? The major characters: Little Black Sambo, his mother (Black Mumbo) and his father (Black Jumbo) used standard English, not the bastardized English then associated with Blacks. Stereotypical anti-Black traits -- for example, laziness, stupidity, and immorality -- were absent from the book. Little Black Sambo, the character, was bright and resourceful unlike most portrayals of Black children." [http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/picaninny/]</ref>

'''The Story of Little Black Sambo''' is a short [[children]]'s book<ref>It has only 1,089 words.</ref> by Helen Bannerman, a [[Scottish]] national. Helen Bannerman went on to write many similar books. The book was first published in 1899 and features the hero, Sambo, outwitting four hungry tigers by trading his colorful clothes and umbrella in return for his safety. The tigers then are defeated by their own vanity, as each bites the next one's tail forming a ring. Objections which surfaced in the mid 20th century<ref> The anti-Little Black Sambo movement started in the 1930s and continued into the 1970s. Black educators and civil rights leaders organized numerous campaigns to get the book banned from public libraries, especially in elementary schools. [http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/picaninny/]</ref> are primarily to the illustrations and to the protagonist's name, not to the story itself.<ref> "Was Bannerman's Little Black Sambo racist? The major characters: Little Black Sambo, his mother (Black Mumbo) and his father (Black Jumbo) used standard English, not the bastardized English then associated with Blacks. Stereotypical anti-Black traits -- for example, laziness, stupidity, and immorality -- were absent from the book. Little Black Sambo, the character, was bright and resourceful unlike most portrayals of Black children." [http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/picaninny/]</ref>

* White readers tend to focus on Bannerman's non-racist intentions and the unfairness of judging yesterday's "classics" by today's standards of racial equality. Blacks find the book's title and the illustrations offensive.<ref name="ferris">[http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/picaninny/]</ref>

* White readers tend to focus on Bannerman's non-racist intentions and the unfairness of judging yesterday's "classics" by today's standards of racial equality. Blacks find the book's title and the illustrations offensive.<ref name="ferris">[http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/picaninny/]</ref>

* The story has all the right elements: food, beautiful bright colors, a child not dependent on the grownups, a little fright, and a very happy ending, to make up a completely delightful and CHARMING story.

* The story has all the right elements: food, beautiful bright colors, a child not dependent on the grownups, a little fright, and a very happy ending, to make up a completely delightful and CHARMING story.

* I STILL LOVED, ADORED, and WAS CHARMED by the story in which a little boy with so much happiness and wits turn all the adversaries into delicious food! <ref name="fairrosa">[http://www.fairrosa.info/disc/sambo.html]</ref>

* I STILL LOVED, ADORED, and WAS CHARMED by the story in which a little boy with so much happiness and wits turn all the adversaries into delicious food! <ref name="fairrosa">[http://www.fairrosa.info/disc/sambo.html]</ref>

The story was a children's favorite for many years, but then became subject to a censorship campaign  in certain countries based on complaints about outdated racial imagery.<ref>'While this story has charmed generations, current publishers have decided to avoid any sense of perceived negative connotations by reissuing the ORIGINAL storybook with a new title: "The Story of Little Babaji.' [http://www.sambosrestaurant.com/indexsam.htm ] </ref>  

The story was a children's favorite for many years, but then became subject to a censorship campaign  in certain countries based on complaints about outdated racial imagery.<ref>'While this story has charmed generations, current publishers have decided to avoid any sense of perceived negative connotations by reissuing the ORIGINAL storybook with a new title: "The Story of Little Babaji.' [http://www.sambosrestaurant.com/indexsam.htm ] </ref>

==Racial stereotyping==

==Racial stereotyping==