Golliwog
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
|
Related e |
|
Featured: |
The golliwog, golliwogg or golly is a black fictional character created by Florence Kate Upton that appears in children's books in the late 19th century and usually depicted as a type of rag doll. It was reproduced, both by commercial and hobby toy-makers as a children's toy called the "golliwog", and had great popularity in the UK and Australia into the 1970s. The doll is characterised by black skin, eyes rimmed in white, clown lips and frizzy hair. Though home-made golliwogs were sometimes female, the golliwog was generally male. For this reason, in the period following World War II, the golliwog was seen, along with the teddy bear, as a suitable soft toy for a young boy.
[edit]
See also
- The Black and White Minstrel Show
- Black dolls
- Darlie
- Golliwogg's Cakewalk
- The Golliwogs, an American rock band that later became Creedence Clearwater Revival
- Golly Bar
- Inki
- Jynx
- Little Black Sambo
- Papa Lazarou
- Raggedy Ann
- Sambo's Restaurant Chain
- Zwarte Piet
- Hajji Firuz
- Mr. Popo
Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Golliwog" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.
