Rea, Betty-Bell. Little Black Sambo. Akron: Saalfield Pub, (1938). Print.
This version of Sambo by Betty Bell Rea (1938) is among the youngest portrayals of Sambo. Unlike a usualpicaninnycaricature, he is not depicted as being overgrown or older…
This image is from one of the later re-illustrated versions of Sambo. Printed in 1908, the illustrator used Helen Bannerman’s original story with new images for Sambo, which are decidedly more caricatured and therefore more racist than the…
Helen Bannerman wrote The Story of Little Black Sambo (1898) to entertain her children while they were living in India. The story has been controversial primarily because of its racist illustrations, which represent a…
UnlikeSounder, Cooley Highdepicts black adolescence as urban and untamed, addressing a group of African American high school students living near the north side of Chicago in a predominately African American neighborhood. The material displays a…