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Sambo Stereotype

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Gerald D. Jaynes
In:Encyclopedia of African American Society
Chapter DOI:https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412952507
Subject:Black Studies, Race & Ethnicity

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One of the most enduring stereotypes throughout American history, which portrays black men as simple-minded, childish, docile, and lazy. Like most racially motivated stereotypes, Sambo was an oversimplified and formulaic departure from reality. The fabrication of the Sambo ...

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