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"The next to go was Clifton's doll, but it burned so stubbornly that I reached inside the case for something else" (568).

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"To die for such a thing! I picked it up with an unclean feeling, looked at the frilled paper. The joined cardboard feet hung down, pulling the paper legs in elastic folds, a construction of tissue, cardboard and glue. And yet I felt a hatred as for something alive. What had made it seem to dance? Its cardboard hands were doubled into fists, the fingers outlined in orange paint, and I noticed that it had two faces, one on either side of the disk of cardboard, and both grinning" (446).

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"I watched numbly as they moved him inside, placing the box of dolls in with him" (438).

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"And those dolls, where had they found them? Why had he picked that way to earn a quarter?" (435)

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"But he knew that only in the Brotherhood could we make ourselves known, could we avoid being empty Sambo dolls" (434).

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"I reached down instead, picking it up and walking off in the same motion. I examined it, strangely weightless in my hand, half expecting to feel it pulse with life. It was a still frill of paper. I dropped it in the pocket where I carried Brother Tarp's chain link and started after the vanished crowd" (434).

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"Sambo-Woogie, you don't have to feed him, he sleeps collapsed, he'll kill your depression And your dispossession, he lives upon the sunshine of your lordly smile And only twenty-five cents, the brotherly two bits of a dollar because he wants me to eat. It gives him pleasure to see me eat. You simply take him and shake him . . . and he does the rest" (433).

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"I raised my foot to crush it" (434).

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"Its fingers deftly lifting the doll's head and stretching it upward, twice its length, then releasing it to dance again" (432).

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"He'll keep you entertained. He'll make you weep sweet -- Tears from laughing. Shake him, shake him, you cannot break him For he's Sambo, the dancing, Sambo, the prancing, Sambo, the entrancing, Sambo Boogie Woogie paper doll. And all for twenty-five cents, the quarter part of a dollar . . . Ladies and gentlemen, he'll bring you joy, step up and meet him, Sambo the -- " (431-2).

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"I was held by the inanimate, boneless bouncing of the grinning doll and struggled between the desire to join in the laughter and to leap upon it with both feet" (432).

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"The rage welled behind the phlegm as I rocked back on my heels ... I saw the doll go over backwards, wilting into a dripping rag of frilled tissue, the hateful head upturned on its outstretched neck still grinning over the sky."
(433)

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"He'll make you laugh, he'll make you sigh, si-igh. He'll make you want to dance, and dance -- Here you are, ladies and gentlemen, Sambo, The dancing doll" (431)

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"It's no jumping-jack, but what, I thought, seeing the doll throwing itself about with the fierce defiance of someone performing a degrading act in public, dancing as though it received a perverse pleasure from its motions" (431).

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"It was some kind of toy . . . A grinning doll of orange-and-black tissue paper with thin flat cardboard disks forming its head and feet and which some mysterious mechanism was causing to move up and down in a loose-jointed, shoulder-shaking, infuriatingly sensuous motion, a dance that was completely detached from the black, mask-like face" (431).

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> Became the classic portrayal of Black men throughout the 1800s
> Evolved from the Jim Crow character which originated in the 1820s from TD Rice
> "Sambo" refers to the idea of a simple, docile, laughing Black man
> Someone who avoids work and provides child-like entertainment while dancing, singing, etc.
> Depicted as carefree and irresponsible
> The "happy" Sambo implied slavery had a benevolent intention and that slaves were content
> Obedient portrayal suggested that Black Americans were glad to serve white people and justified slavery
> Served as a resolution for "moral and political" issues of allowing slavery