Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema by Odie Henderson

Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema

Odie Henderson

304 pages first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging medium-paced
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 In 1971, two films grabbed the movie business, shook it up, and launched a genre that would help define the decade. Melvin Van Peebles's Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, an independently produced film about a male sex worker who beats up cops a...

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