tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61572284883770851612024-03-12T18:25:00.305-07:00Women of the Blaxploitation EraAfrican American Women in the Artshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019537277092388030noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157228488377085161.post-1713760978734026232011-04-27T11:47:00.001-07:002011-04-29T07:36:15.319-07:00Blaxploitation: History<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Blaxploitation was a film genre that emerged at the end of the Black Power Era in the 1970s. The ex-film publicist, Junius Griffin, created the term “Blaxploitation”. This genre was the first to incorporate Funk and Soul music in the film scores. Blaxploitation films had a predominantly African American cast of actors and audiences.</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Blaxploitation focused on Black men and women as anti-heroes and anti-heroines. The films focused on topics relating to the war against white supremacy and the white establishment, known as “The Man”. The films also displayed the main characters fighting to bring down villains in lower income neighborhoods occupied by African Americans. Blaxploitation films were known for pimps, prostitutes, hit men and drug dealers being empowered as protectors of the urban ghettos. Political activist and scholar, Angela Davis became the model for Blaxploitation style due to her status as the icon for Black Nationalism.</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Women of the Blaxploitation era were critiqued for their revealing clothing and their furthering black stereotypes perceived by white America. This related to women of the era rejecting the ideals of “respectability.” Blaxploitation films also displayed the victimization of women.</span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Blaxploitation genre was perceived as a trend of Black Empowerment. However, the NAACP, Urban League, and Southern Christian Leadership Conference heavily critiqued it for its continuation of black stereotypes. These 3 groups united to establish the Coalition Against Blaxploitation; this was a main factor of the genres decline in 1975. </span></div></div></div>African American Women in the Artshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019537277092388030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6157228488377085161.post-48393585860793985412011-04-27T11:46:00.000-07:002011-04-27T16:02:35.900-07:00List of Blaxploitation Films Starring Women<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNr-JdKS0Oi5Bi6rT5lQNU8GXXPaBhoC1o5ghuhyphenhyphenAytUGhMdAuv4DT9Ac7eMvRYl-877AUmwMhyoXce9Lg6G2M8y0P0MH1hO6AF2NG8JPXqLxUvjzs-NS_m4avqGuazRNa7E1IR_szoT_C/s1600/9152.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNr-JdKS0Oi5Bi6rT5lQNU8GXXPaBhoC1o5ghuhyphenhyphenAytUGhMdAuv4DT9Ac7eMvRYl-877AUmwMhyoXce9Lg6G2M8y0P0MH1hO6AF2NG8JPXqLxUvjzs-NS_m4avqGuazRNa7E1IR_szoT_C/s320/9152.jpg" width="218" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNr-JdKS0Oi5Bi6rT5lQNU8GXXPaBhoC1o5ghuhyphenhyphenAytUGhMdAuv4DT9Ac7eMvRYl-877AUmwMhyoXce9Lg6G2M8y0P0MH1hO6AF2NG8JPXqLxUvjzs-NS_m4avqGuazRNa7E1IR_szoT_C/s1600/9152.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br />
</a>-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span>Amazing Grace (1974)</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;">-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span>Black Mama, White Mama (1973)</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;">-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span>Emma Mae aka “Black Sisters Revenge” (1976)</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;">-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span>Cleopatra Jones (1973)</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;">-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span>Coffy (1973)</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;">-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span>Foxy Brown (1973)</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;">-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span>Women in Cages (1971)</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;">-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span>T.N.T. Jackson (1973</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;">-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span>Friday Foster (1973)</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;">-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span>Get Christie Love! (1974)</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;">-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span>Sugar Hill (1974)</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;">-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span>She Devils in Chains (1976)</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;">-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span>The Muthers (1976)</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;">-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span>The Big Bird Cage (1972)</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;">-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span>Claudine (1974)</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;">-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span>Darktown Strutters (1975)</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;">-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span>Lady Cocoa (1975)</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -.25in;">-<span style="font: normal normal normal 7pt/normal 'Times New Roman';"> </span>Velvet Smooth (1976)<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Teresa Graves was an actress in the Blaxploitation era that redefined black womanhood as an action heroine by displaying alternative images of black femininity. Graves was well known for her starring role as a police investigator in </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Get Christie Love!</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, the television series and movie. In 1975, she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award as Best TV Actress-Drama. </span></span><br />
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