The Story of Little Black Sambo

The Story of Little Black Sambo
Author: Helen Bannerman
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 74
Release: 1923-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0397300069

The jolly and exciting tale of the little boy who lost his red coat and his blue trousers and his purple shoes but who was saved from the tigers to eat 169 pancakes for his supper, has been universally loved by generations of children. First written in 1899, the story has become a childhood classic and the authorized American edition with the original drawings by the author has sold hundreds of thousands of copies. Little Black Sambo is a book that speaks the common language of all nations, and has added more to the joy of little children than perhaps any other story. They love to hear it again and again; to read it to themselves; to act it out in their play.

Burgers in Blackface

Burgers in Blackface
Author: Naa Oyo A. Kwate
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 91
Release: 2019-07-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1452961786

Exposes and explores the prevalence of racist restaurant branding in the United States Aunt Jemima is the face of pancake mix. Uncle Ben sells rice. Chef Rastus shills for Cream of Wheat. Stereotyped Black faces and bodies have long promoted retail food products that are household names. Much less visible to the public are the numerous restaurants that deploy unapologetically racist logos, themes, and architecture. These marketing concepts, which center nostalgia for a racist past and commemoration of our racist present, reveal the deeply entrenched American investment in anti-blackness. Drawing on wide-ranging sources from the late 1800s to the present, Burgers in Blackface gives a powerful account, and rebuke, of historical and contemporary racism in restaurant branding. Forerunners: Ideas First Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead

The Story of Little Black Quasha: By Helen Bannerman

The Story of Little Black Quasha: By Helen Bannerman
Author: Helen Bannerman
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 60
Release: 2018-09-03
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781720058601

This is an excellent book. Cretins have deprived children of the works of Helen Bannerman for too long. Her classic story of "Little Black Sambo" is improved upon here, this time our heroine is Little Quasha, a kind, intelligent girl who loves to read and whose unselfish assistance to an unfortunate person is rewarded. Hungry tigers disrupt our scholar while she reads her books, but with the help of a friend she devises a way to escape.

Little Black Sambo

Little Black Sambo
Author: Helen Bannerman
Publisher: anboco
Total Pages: 27
Release: 2016-08-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3736409303

The Story of Little Black Sambo is a children's book written and illustrated by Scottish author Helen Bannerman, and first published by Grant Richards in October 1899 as one in a series of small-format books called The Dumpy Books for Children. The story was a children's favorite for more than half a century but would become a victim of allegations of racism in the mid-20th century. Critics of the time observed that Bannerman presents one of the first black heroes in children's literature and regarded the book as positively portraying black characters in both the text and pictures, especially in comparison to the more negative books of that era that depicted blacks as simple and uncivilized. Both text and illustrations have undergone considerable revision since.

Popol Vuh

Popol Vuh
Author:
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN: 0684818450

One of the most extraordinary works of the human imagination and the most important text in the native languages of the Americas, Popul Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life was first made accessible to the public 10 years ago. This new edition retains the quality of the original translation, has been enriched, and includes 20 new illustrations, maps, drawings, and photos.

The Madness of the Day

The Madness of the Day
Author: Maurice Blanchot
Publisher:
Total Pages: 46
Release: 1981
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Jacques Derrida writes (in Deconstruction and Criticism)of The Madness of the Day that it is a story whose title runs wild and drives the reader mad.la folie du jour, the madness of today, of the day today, which leads to the madness that comes from the day, is born of it, as well as the madness of the day itself, itself mad..La folie du jour is a story of madness, of that madness that consists in seeing the light, vision or visibility, to see beyond what is visible, is not merely 'to have a vision' in the usual sense of the word, but to see-beyond-sight, to see-sight-beyond-sight..The story obscures the sun.with a blinding light.

Max Turns Yellow

Max Turns Yellow
Author: Martha King
Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2020-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781952419447

This second book in the MAX series is set in Brooklyn's famous Vinegar Hill as well as in the middle of a major cancer research center in Manhattan. Ms. King once again thrusts the reader into her protagonist's specific geographic space and puts him or her among New York's downtown artists, writers, and hangers-on.

The Floating Bear

The Floating Bear
Author: Diane Di Prima
Publisher:
Total Pages: 578
Release: 1973
Genre: American literature
ISBN: 9780910938297

Collects in one volume -- with an introduction and new material added -- the newsletter published in New York and edited by Diane Di Prima, 1961-69 (with LeRoi Jones, 1961-62).

The Story of Little Babaji

The Story of Little Babaji
Author: Helen Bannerman
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2002-06-18
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780060080938

Helen Bannerman, who was born in Edinburgh in 1863, lived in India for thirty years. As a gift for her two little girls, she wrote and illustrated The Story of Little Black Sambo (1899), a story that clearly takes place in India (with its tigers and "ghi," or melted butter), even though the names she gave her characters belie that setting. For this new edition of Bannerman's much beloved tale, the little boy, his mother, and his father have all been give authentic Indian names: Babaji, Mamaji, and Papaji. And Fred Marcellino's high-spirited illustrations lovingly, memorably transform this old favorite. He gives a classic story new life.