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=**The Little Black Sambo**=

by Helen Bannerman

 * The Little Black Sambo is a children's book. The author, Helen Bannerman, did not mean for the story she wrote for her children to be racest in any way, some of the American readers saw it that way . In the story, Sambo's mother,Black Mumbo, makes him a new red coat, new blue pants, and buys him a umbrella.Sambo encounters a group of tigers that threaten to eat him but he gives each tiger a different part of his clothing. The tigers begin to fight with one another and turn into a pile of butter. Black Mumbo makes pancakes out of it and Little Black Sambos family eats them.
 * Once the story arrived in America, Sambo became used as a racial slur due to the picture of Little Black Sambo which became synonymous of an African American person.
 * Pitch black skin, big red lips,and white eyes were the caractiers components that made the book "racist"


 * The significance of this book is that the book brought up so much attention that it was banned for racial reasons. Due to the picture and the racial slur sambo.
 * I guess that people did not understand the phase don't judge a book by its cover, because this book is about a boy that makes pancakes out of tigers not racism.
 * [[image:alephBetBooksStoryOfLittleBlackSambo.jpg]]
 * The word "Sambo"alludes to stereotypical aspects of the African American people and is used in an insulting way.
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