The problem with focus on the intentions of golliwog enthusiasts is this: they don’t matter
While those early performances may have served as “light” entertainment for white audiences , the ideas on which they were based – that black people were inferior, stupid, lazy and comical – were derived from racist post-abolition worries about black people and their place in society,By the time it had come to Britain, those worries were similarly widespread.
It’s the same reasoning that convinced Upton her character – even the doll it was based on – were somehow forces for good. The same reasoning that led Christopher Ryley, the Essex pub’s licencee, to writethat complaints about displaying golliwog dolls were merely the gripes of “snowflakes” who “decided that” the dolls “are racial”, when in fact, they are inherently so. Or indeed our Home Secretary, who suggested police action against the pub was “nonsense”.
What’s particularly interesting to me in all of this, especially now the debate has become even more inflamed following, is that defences over showcasing these dolls often invoke the usual British dismissal of racism as a uniquely American problem. How could Britain be in any way influenced by the extreme displays of hate we’ve come to strictly associate with the US?
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