Sambo Stereotypes

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Sambo dolls and stereotypes dehumanize people of color solely from degrading them. Sambo dolls are dolls that are created from butter from off the ground to show that blacks are unsanitary animalistic people. The way sambo dolls were portrayed frustrates me because people of color are not in the slightest unsanitary animalistic people. In fact, black women were seen as promiscuous, seductive, and tempting while white women were seen as modest. Another factor that is upsetting is how the folls show African Americans acting foolish to please the white puppet-masters. It is known that the smiles on the dolls were exaggerated, like a mask and I think that the smiles were drawn this way to hide the pain underneath the dolls smile. Through 1830 to

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