Germany

Factual Questions
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Is there a teutonic equivalent to little black Sambo?

2

Little Aryan Adolph?

3

The Little HJ That Could?

4

Err… What is this ‘little black Sambo’? Forgive my ignorance; I’m living in a hole with my ears plugged and my eyes shut…

5

The Katzenjammer Kids?

6

Little Black Sambo was a children’s book written by Helen Banneman around 1900. There may have been several in the series, all centered on the adventures of the young Indian child.

It is remembered today mostly as a relic of ignorant racial stereotyping, especially in the artwork. It is also more commonly associated with sub-Saharan African ‘black people’, partly due to some subsequent illustrations and partly due to ignorance in grouping all ‘black people’ together.

Eat at Cook’s Chicken!

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Although Helen Bannerman lived in India and the story involved tigers, the original Little Black Sambo (1899) looked African. Some later editions - and the Sambo’s restaurant chain - made him look Indian in order to avoid charges of racism.

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Here is an online copy with the original images.

Here is a much less image-intensive copy.

Here is the Project Gutenberg text of Little Black Sambo. Access the plain ASCII files linked to on this page with your favorite FTP program.

I’ve been having problems accessing the Project Gutenberg FTP sites with Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 (404 Error messages), but Netscape Navigator 4.7 accesses them just fine. Oh well, just thought you might like to know.

Lynx, BTW, handles FTP just fine. :slight_smile:

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Fritz Jackbooten’s comical adventures through ze Rhineland?

Were Hansel and Gretel German?