a b Macintyre, Ben (22 November 2013). "There's nothing innocent about the golliwog". The Times . Retrieved 8 September 2021.

Kim is about an Anglo-Irish boy on his travells across the Indian continent. Its depiction of Colonial India has caused it to be considered controversial by many people. Kipling is, of course, most famous for his Jungle Book. surely this is an opportunity missed for good parents to sit down with their children and discuss these issues instead of attempting to sweep them under the carpet Some outlets didn’t regard Blyton even at her best as having enough literary merit to appear on their shelves. In 1963 she was snubbed by St Pancras libraries with the statement, “We consider her books are generally sloppily written. They do nothing to add to a child’s imagination or mental horizon”. In 1964 they were removed from Nottingham libraries for not having a “sufficiently wide vocabulary”.

what you say here is so true of EB. critics have often commented that she pleased children in her style of writing because she thought like a child. this threatens my point. surely if the book is written with completely innocent intentions and read completely innocently by children why should adults attempt to impose their racist views upon it? White Christmas 'golliwog' display labelled racist". Toowoomba Chronicle. 1 December 2016. Archived from the original on 23 January 2018 . Retrieved 9 February 2018. word wog. Apparently derived from the word Golliwog, 6 wog is an English slur against dark-skinned people, especially Middle or Far East The name was later changed to Ten Little Indians, then later to And Then There Were None. All of the books are still readily available on the secondary market. S. R. (Ed.), Advertising and popular culture: Studies in variety and versatility. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press.

As much as I hate any alterations to text this is one instance where I can understand the name changes (maybe because I didn't grow up with the original names, they don't have the same memories for me). Upton, B., & Upton, F. K. (1895). The adventures of two Dutch dolls and a Golliwog. London: Longmans, Green & Co.Brough, S. & Messinger, H. (1995). Langenscheidt's new college German dictionary. New York, NY: Langenscheidt. Tintin in the Congo has often been criticized as having racist and colonialist views, as well as several scenes of violence against animals. Hergé has later claimed that he was only portraying the naïve views of the time. When the album was redrawn in 1946, Hergé removed several references to the fact that the Congo was at that time a Belgian colony. In July 2018, a YouGov poll asked 1,660 Britons whether it was "racist to sell or display a golliwog doll", to which 63% responded "No", 20% "Yes", and 17% "I'm Not Sure". [35] I certainly wouldn't label the removal of the words 'golliwog' and 'nigger' as being politically correct. They are down-right offensive, full stop. Hajjaji, Danya (16 April 2023). "Essex pub that displayed golly dolls seized by police is vandalised". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 5 May 2023.

England, Germany, and Australia are derisively called wogs. 7 In the year 2000, a British police officer was fired for referring to an Asian colleague Ten Little Nig***s by Agatha Christie – First published with this title in 1939, then reprinted in the US with And Then There Were None in 1940. Billings, Claire (23 August 2001). "Robertson's axes Golly after 91 years". Campaign . Retrieved 23 October 2018. The recent row over Enid Blyton is nothing new, says Charlie Connelly. The children’s author was always controversial. against brown-skinned people. As a racial epithet, it is comparable to nigger or spic, though its usage extends beyond any single ethnic group. Dark-skinned people inEnid Blyton’s sexism was most prevalent in perhaps her most popular series, the Famous Five, which happens to be the series I loved the most in my childhood. In hindsight, some of the criticism against the books does hold weight. Blyton made a clear distinction between men and women and assigned rigid societal roles to both.