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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
Black Film as a Signifying Practice
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Gladstone Lloyd Yearwood
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Africa Research and Publications

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The book examines the way black filmmakers use expressive forms and systems of signification that reflect the cultural and historical priorities of the black ex
Foxy
Language: en
Pages: 248
Authors: Pam Grier
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-04-28 - Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

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Some may know her as hot, gutsy, gun-totin' Foxy Brown, Friday Foster, Coffy, and Jackie Brown. Others may know her from her role as Kit Porter on The L Word. B
Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners
Language: en
Pages: 281
Authors: LaShawn Harris
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-15 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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During the early twentieth century, a diverse group of African American women carved out unique niches for themselves within New York City's expansive informal