Sambo is a derogatory and offensive label for an African American person in the English language. Historically, it is a name in American English derived ...Sambo(racialterm)FromWikipedia,thefreeencyclopediaJumptonavigationJumptosearchDerogatorytermforablackpersonForthebook,seeTheStoryofLittleBlackSambo.Thisarticleneedsadditionalcitationsforverification.Pleasehelpimprovethisarticlebyaddingcitationstoreliablesources.Unsourcedmaterialmaybechallengedandremoved.Findsources: "Sambo" racialterm – news ·newspapers ·books ·scholar ·JSTOR(November2009)(Learnhowandwhentoremovethistemplatemessage)ThepaintingNegroconMulataproduceZambo('ablackmanwithamulattowomanmakesazambo'),CristóbalLozano,c.1771–1776SamboisaderogatoryandoffensivelabelforanAfricanAmericanpersonintheEnglishlanguage.Historically,itisanameinAmericanEnglishderivedfromatermforapersonofAfricanandNativeAmericanancestry.AftertheCivilWar,duringtheJimCroweraandbeyond,thetermwasusedinconversation,printadvertisingandhouseholditemsasapejorativedescriptorforBlackpeople.ThetermisnowconsideredoffensiveinAmerican[1]andBritishEnglish.[2]Contents1Etymology2Literature3Places3.1Sambo'sGrave3.2Sambo'srestaurantchain4Seealso5References6Bibliography7ExternallinksEtymology[edit]SambocameintotheEnglishlanguagefromzambo,theSpanishwordinLatinAmericaforapersonofmixedAfricanandNativeAmericandescent.[3]ThisinturnmayhavecomefromoneofthreeAfricanlanguagesources.Webster'sThirdInternationalDictionaryholdsthatitmayhavecomefromtheKongowordnzambu('monkey')—thezof(Latin-American)SpanishbeingpronouncedhereliketheEnglishs.TheRoyalSpanishAcademygivestheoriginfromaLatinword,possiblytheadjectivevalgus[4]oranothermodernSpanishterm(patizambo),bothofwhichtranslateto'bow-legged'.[5]TheequivalentterminPortuguese-speakingareas,suchasBrazil,iscafuzo.Literature[edit]ExamplesofSamboasacommonnamecanbefoundasfarbackasthe19thcentury.InVanityFair(serialisedfrom1847)byWilliamM.Thackeray,theblack-skinnedIndianservantoftheSedleyfamilyfromChapterOneiscalledSambo.Similarl