Sambo (racial term) - Wikipedia Sambo (racial term) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search For the book, see The Story of Little Black Sambo. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Sambo" racial term – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (November 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) A painting captioned "Negro con Mulata produce Zambo" ("a black with a mulatto produces a zambo"), Indian school, 1770. Sambo is a name in American English derived from a term for a person of mixed African and Amerindian ancestry. The name then came to be applied to Black persons of various degrees of European admixture: mulatto, quadroon, octoroon, etc., in American[1] and British English.[2] As a proper noun in present-day English it is likely offensive, particularly if used as a term of address. Contents 1 Etymology 2 Literature 3 Places 3.1 Sambo's Grave 3.2 Sambo's restaurant chain 4 See also 5 References 6 Bibliography 7 External links Etymology[edit] Sambo came into the English language from zambo, the Spanish word in Latin America for a person of mixed African and Native American descent.[3] This in turn may have come from one of three African language sources. Webster's Third International Dictionary holds that it may have come from the Kongo word nzambu ('monkey')—the z of (Latin-American) Spanish being pronounced here like the English s. The Royal Spanish Academy gives the origin from a Latin word, possibly the adjective valgus[4] or another modern Spanish term (patizambo), both of which translate to 'bow-legged'.[5] The equivalent term in Portuguese-speaking areas, such as Brazil, is cafuzo. Literature[edit] Examples of Sambo as a common name can be found as far back as the 19th century. In Vanity Fair (serialised from 1847) by William M. Thackeray, the black-skinned Indian servant of the Sedley family from Chapter One is called Sambo. Similarly, in Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe, one of Simon Legree's overseers is named Sambo. Instances of it being used as a stereotypical name for African Americans can be found as early as the Civil War. The name Sambo became especially associated with the children's book The Story of Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman, published in 1899. It was the story of an Indian boy named "Sambo" who outwitted a group of hungry tigers. Bannerman also wrote Little Black Mingo, Little Black Quasha, and Little Black Quibba.[6] In this book, Sambo is the name of a southern Indian boy. Places[edit] Sambo's Grave[edit] Main article: Sambo's Grave Sambo's Grave is the 1736 burial site of a young Indian cabin boy or slave, on unconsecrated ground in a field near the small village of Sunderland Point, near Heysham and Overton, Lancashire, England. Sunderland Point used to be a port, serving cotton, sugar and slave ships from the West Indies and North America. Sambo's restaurant chain[edit] The once-popular Sambo's restaurant chain used the Helen Bannerman images to promote and decorate their restaurants, although the restaurants were originally claimed to have been named after the chain's co-owners, Samuel Battistone and Newell Bohnett. The name choice was a contributing factor in the chain's demise in the early 1980s.[7] See also[edit] Afro-Latin Americans Casta Race and ethnicity in Latin America Sambo The Peculiar Institution References[edit] ^ "Definition of "Sambo" (US English)". Oxford Dictionaries Online. Retrieved 24 December 2015. ^ "Definition of 'Sambo' (British and World English)". Oxford Dictionaries Online. Retrieved 24 December 2015. ^ Forbes, Jack (1993). Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples. University of Illinois Press. p. 235. ^ Collins Latin Concise Dictionary. UK: HarperCollins Publishers. 1997. ISBN 978-0-06-053690-9. English-Latin section, p. 20. ^ "patizambo" (translation). Password Spanish–English Dictionary. Cambridge University Press. 2014. ^ Helen Bannerman (1902) The Story of Little Black Quibba ^ Molina, Joshua. 4 June 2020. "BizHawk: Sambo’s Owners Heed Protesters’ Call to Change Name of Santa Barbara Restaurant." Noozhawk. Bibliography[edit] Boskin, Joseph (1986) Sambo: The Rise and Demise of an American Jester, New York: Oxford University Press Goings, Kenneth (1994) Mammy and Uncle Mose: Black Collectibles and American Stereotyping, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, ISBN 0-253-32592-7 External links[edit] e-texts of The Story of Little Black Sambo: HTML version with the illustrations Plain text version with no illustrations (Project Gutenberg edition) v t e Ethnic slurs by ethnicity Africans Blacks Abeed Black American princess Black Buck Black Diamonds Boerehaat Choc ice Cocolo Colored Cushi Golliwog House Negro Jim Crow Kaffir Macaca Mammy Negro Nigger (Nigga) Pickaninny Rastus Queen / Queenie Sambo Tar-Baby Uncle Tom Wog Americans (North and South) Mixed Beaner (Mexicans) Greaser Naco Pocho (non-Spanish speaking Hispanics) Spic Wetback Indigenous Cholo (Mestizos) Eskimo (Inuit) Half-breed (Métis) Indian/Injun (Native American / First Nations) Redskin/Red Indian (Native American / First Nations) Squaw (Native American women) Whites Buckra Coonass (Cajuns) Cracker Gringo Haole Hillbilly / Hilljack Peckerwood Pindos Redneck Swamp Yankee Trailer trash White trash Whitey Others Canuck (Canadians) Yank / Yankee (Americans) Coonass (Cajuns) Newfie (Newfoundlander) Sudaca (Central and South Americans) Asians East and Southeast Asians General Banana (westernized East Asians) Coolie Gook Sangokujin Chinese Ah Beng American-born Chinese (ABC) Ching chong (also directed at non-Chinese Asians) Chink (also directed at non-Chinese Asians) Chinaman Chinky Jook-sing (overseas / westernized Chinese) Shina Japanese Jap Jjokbari Nip Xiao Riben Koreans Gaoli bangzi Sangokujin (also Chinese) South Asians General American-Born Confused Desi (ABCD) Coolie Bengali Hindus Bong Bongal Danchi babu Dkhar Malaun Mayang Indians Chinki (Northeast Indians) Coolie Keling (Maritime Southeast Asian-origin Indians) Pakistanis Paki Europeans General Ang mo Bule Farang Guiri Guizi Gweilo Honky Mat Salleh Redleg Wasi'chu Wigger Wog Albanians Šiptar Turco-Albanian British Limey (English people) Pom Sheep shagger (Welsh people) Taffy (Welsh people) Teuchter (Scottish Highlanders) Dutch Cheesehead Finns Chukhna China Swede Finnjävel French Cheese-eating surrender monkeys Frenchie Frog Gabacho Germans Hun Kraut Greeks Grecoman Irish Fenian (Republicans) Knacker (Irish Travellers) Pikey (Irish Travellers) Shoneen (Anglophile Irish) Taig (Irish Catholics) Italians Dago Goombah Guido Polentone (Northern Italians) Sardegnolo (Sardinians) Sheep shagger (Sardinians) Terrone (South Italians) Wop Poles Polack Russians Moskal Tibla Serbs Shkije Vlach Spaniards Dago Gachupín Polaco Xarnego Ukrainians Khokhol Others Bulgarophiles (Macedonians and Serbs) Serbomans (Macedonians and Bulgarians) Yestonians (Russified Estonians) Arabs Rafida (Shi'ites) Raghead Wog Jews Christ killer Jewish-American princess (JAP) Kafir Khazar (Ashkenazi Jews) Kike Marrano (Conversos / Crypto-Jews) Rootless cosmopolitan Wog Yekke (German Jews) Yid Zhyd / Zhydovka Żydokomuna Oceanians Blackfella (Indigenous Australians) Hori (Māori) Kanaka (Pacific Islander) Kanake (Polynesians) Turks Kebab Mongol Romani Didicoy Gypsies Nawar Zott Outsiders Ajam (non-Arabs) Barbarian Fresh off the boat / F.O.B. 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