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Language: en
Pages: 194
Authors: Stephane Dunn
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-01 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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Blaxploitation action narratives as well as politically radical films like Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song typically portrayed black women as trifling "bitche
Beyond the Black Lady
Language: en
Pages: 135
Authors: Lisa B. Thompson
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-12-11 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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In this book, Lisa B. Thompson explores the representation of black middle-class female sexuality by African American women authors in narrative literature, dra
Fear of a Hip-Hop Planet
Language: en
Pages: 313
Authors: D. Marvin Jones
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-01 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Is Gangsta Rap just black noise? Or does it play the same role for urban youth that CNN plays in mainstream America? This provocative set of essays tells us how
From SWEETBACK to SUPER FLY
Language: en
Pages: 271
Authors: Gerald R. Butters
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-01-31 - Publisher: University of Missouri Press

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Racial politics and capitalism found a way to blend together in 1970s Chicago in the form of movie theaters targeted specifically toward African Americans. In F
Militant Visions
Language: en
Pages: 216
Authors: Elizabeth Reich
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-08-01 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press

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Militant Visions examines how, from the 1940s to the 1970s, the cinematic figure of the black soldier helped change the ways American moviegoers saw black men,