Blaxploitation movies were seductive - both for their sensuality and their crusades. Pam Grier’s afro was a poster for ghetto girls and boys. Watching a Black woman avenge the white man’s filth in her community incited an expansion of the Black womanist movement. In Yvonne Sims’ 2006 book Women Of Blaxploitation: How The Black Action Film Heroine Changed American Popular Culture, Pam Grier explains this phenomenon: “All across the country, a lot of women were Foxy Brown and Coffy. They w...
Blaxploitation movies were seductive - both for their sensuality and their crusades. Pam Grier’s afro was a poster for ghetto girls and boys. Watching a Black woman avenge the white man’s filth in her community incited an expansion of the Black womanist movement. In Yvonne Sims’ 2006 book Women Of Blaxploitation: How The Black Action Film Heroine Changed American Popular Culture, Pam Grier explains this phenomenon: “All across the country, a lot of women were Foxy Brown and Coffy. They w...
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