As a toy doll and a character in books and other media, the golliwog had its heyday in the late 1800s and 1900s.
stated that"wog" was possibly shortened from"golliwog," and that the latter first appeared in 1895 , while"wog" was first used in 1920. The entry read:c. 1920,"a lower-class babu shipping clerk" [Partridge]; but popularized in World War II British armed forces slang for"Arab," also"native of India" , roughly equivalent to American gook; possibly shortened from golliwog.
Even if"golliwogs" and"wogs" are etymologically linked, that fact would not necessarily discredit the notion that the dolls promote racial stereotypes. We have reached out to a number of experts to complete this report and will update it if we get more information."20th Century Cairo." The University of Texas at Austin. https://www.laits.utexas.edu/cairo/history/modern/modern.html. Accessed 20 Apr. 2023.
"Definition of GOLLIWOG." Merriam-Webster https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/golliwog. Accessed 20 Apr. 2023. Upton, Florence K."The Golliwogg's Desert Island." Longmans, Green & Co, 1906. Internet Archive, http://archive.org/details/b1109152. Accessed 20 Apr. 2023.
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