Posted on 03/02/2019 5:38:31 AM PST by TigerClaws
As Dr. Seuss’ birthday approaches on March 2, a new study argues that many of the author’s classic children’s books are racist and problematic — and only two percent of his characters represent people of color.
“[This study reveals] how racism spans across the entire Seuss collection, while debunking myths about how books like Horton Hears a Who! and The Sneetches can be used to promote tolerance, anti-bias, or anti-racism,” Katie Ishizuka and Ramón Stephens write in their February 2019 report, “The Cat is Out of the Bag: Orientalism, AntiBlackness, and White Supremacy in Dr. Seuss’ s Children’s Books,” as part of St. Catherine University’s Research on Diversity in Youth Literature.
They continue: “Findings from this study promote awareness of the racist narratives and images in Dr. Seuss’ children’s books and implications to the formation and reinforcement of racial biases in children.”
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It was named after founders SAM Battistone and Newell BOhnett...though they did use the “Little Black Sambo” stories in some way. Only Sambo was really an Indian.
A chain, which rebranded some locations as Laughing Tiger or something, now mostly gone
The communist mantra
I posted one of Dr Seuss’s racial cartoons
on FR and got suspended for three days.
We have met the enemy and he is us.
“New York newspaper PM.” Ah, awakened memories. As a youngster, junior high school age, I used to buy PM on a newsstand just to read the comic strip “Barnaby.”
Seuss was a leftist, but at least I do give him credit for not giving Stalin a free pass. Most leftists back then would never have dared to criticize Uncle Joe.
“The Story of Little Black Sambo—the controversial 1899 children’s book by Helen Bannerman about a dark-skinned South Indian boy that eventually came to be seen as emblematic of black “pickaninny” stereotypes.”
There was also a chain of restaurants
with the Sambos name. They would hand
out “wooden nickle” tokens for free
cups of coffee. There once were over 1700
stores. I believe there is only one open
today, in Santa Barbara.
:-(
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