Golliwog’s Revenge

As I read this chapter I wondered what it had to do with the title. That is, until I read page 113 and 114 and finally decided to look up the definition of golliwog (a grotesque black doll). I knew that it was a funny looking black doll, but I never thought of it as grotesque.
Anyway, I believe the revenge had to do with Birdie’s description of her mother’s appearance and behavior which began on page 113:
“When I turned, she appeared enormous to me. It struck me that she had been eating lately with a hurricane energy – with even more gusto than usual.”
“Meanwhile, my mother was whispering things to herself as she drove, her head at a crooked angle.”
“At Friendly’s she wolfed down her banana split, getting chocolate around her mouth and a little dot of whipped cream on the tip of her nose so that she looked clownish, like Golliwog.
“So, Miss Black is Beautiful doesn’t think you’re good enough, huh? You probably remind her of me, and that’s what they’re all trying to forget these days, you know – that they ever dabbled in the nitty gritty land of miscegenation.”
So, here was Sandy, a paranoid, under cover, activist; looking like a real life white golliwog. Then later, as the saying goes, the pot calling the kettle black!