Word: sambo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bowers has lived for years in a black neighborhood on the poor side of the railroad tracks in Laurel. He runs a pinball and vending-machine company called Sambo Amusement. He loves NASCAR racing and cars in general and drives two classic baby-blue Ford Falcons. He attends the mainstream Hillcrest Baptist Church, where he has taught Sunday school. He gives generously to the poor, including a family who recently asked the church for children's clothing. "What you see on the news and what you see in the church are totally different," says former Hillcrest pastor Max Parker...
...National Endowment for the Arts, these artists all raised important questions about the contemporary and historic constructions of their ethnic, sexual and political identities. Walker joked about one of Serrano's most notorious images, "You can't put Jesus in a piss jar, but you can't put Sambo anywhere...
Black Grape's endearing range of tropes and narrowness of tone would be hypocritical if it did not offend. The album cover features an almost sambo-like purple face, and the inside artwork is a melange of Aunt Jemima figures, smiling Aryan face and blonde hour glass cartoons. "Marbles" opens with the dub of a righteous gospel preacher: "A whistling woman...is an abomination to the lord" and leads into the chorus "Why you say yes when you know you mean no?," playing on current sexual protocol. Of course of few in the crowd might even take issue with...
Every day in Charleston, S.C., the South rises again. Airport advertisements hawk local plantations preserved in antebellum splendor. The Old City Market sports Sambo lawn jockeys and fat black mammy dolls holding pigtailed blond babies. And a few blocks away, the Rebel flag blazes in a store window...
...professional golfer Frank ("Fuzzy") Zoeller saw Tiger Woods quite clearly. He gazed upon the new king of professional golf, through whose veins runs the blood of four continents, and beheld neither a one-man melting pot nor even a golfing prodigy but a fried-chicken-and-collard- greens-eating Sambo. Zoeller saw Woods, in short, as just another stereotype, condemned by his blackness to the perpetual status of "little...