Catching Tigers: White Childhood Nostalgia and Constructions of Blackness in Little Black Sambo

Abstract

Abstract:This article traces the ideological and semiotic meanings of race in five distinct editions of Helen Bannerman's The Story of Little Black Sambo published between 1899 and 1943 to reveal the persistent antiblackness lingering under the guise of nostalgia for the classic storybook and its titular character.