Blaxploitation or blacksploitation is an ethnic subgenre of exploitation film that emerged in the United States in the early 1970’s. The films aimed main audience were urban African Americans but the appeal broadened across racial and ethnic lines. Blaxploitation films featured black actors and actresses in lead roles, anti-establishment plots, stereotypical characters, glorified violence, and … Continue reading More On Blaxploitation
Colorism
For this week's blog post I will be talking about Colorism as it still affects the black community even in 2019. Now many do not understand or grasp the concept of what Colorism is. So here is the basic definition compared to the definition of racism as the two are normally paired or seen as … Continue reading Colorism
Cultural Appropriation
Dear Reader, In one of my recent posts, I mentioned Cultural Appropriation. With Halloween in our rear view, I think that it might be important to discuss the topic. You might’ve seen a number of costumes that were examples of Cultural Appropriation and not even realized it. What exactly is Cultural Appropriation? Oxford Dictionary describes … Continue reading Cultural Appropriation
Cite Black Women – Elaine Brown
A couple of my previous blog posts have touched upon the fact that black women were often excluded from the Black Power movement if they called out the misogyny they saw, even if they fervently supported other aspects of the movement. The belittling of black women's thoughts has continued well beyond the '60s and '70s … Continue reading Cite Black Women – Elaine Brown
Cite Black Women: Toni Morrison
Image borrowed from the Cite Black Women website. The Cite Black Women campaign was founded in November of 2017 by Christen A. Smith. The goal was to get academics in particular to cite African American females who have produced any form of literature as the main focus of their own work. The movement uses a … Continue reading Cite Black Women: Toni Morrison
Citing Black Women for What Matters
Hi everyone, this week, instead of generating a topic on my own, I have been given a topic, which is the Cite Black Women project. This is basically a call for academics to read the work of black women, for teachers to integrate it into their classroom syllabus, and to acknowledge and respect their intellectual … Continue reading Citing Black Women for What Matters
Cite Black Women, It’s Not That Hard!
Historically speaking, black women is one of the most overlooked and undervalued members of society. This is especially staggering when compared to how much they have contributed to every aspect of society, from science to education, art, literature, theater, fashion, anything you can think of, a black woman was probably there helping things along, if … Continue reading Cite Black Women, It’s Not That Hard!
Cite Black Women
I have been thinking a lot about what I should write for my project in this class. I was thinking of doing something along the lines of how to educate and guide black or minority students in the classroom. I found a few good sources and I believe that I will be able to build … Continue reading Cite Black Women
Citing Black Women
According to citeblackwomencollective.org, Christen Smith created Cite Black Women as a campaign to “push people to engage in a radical praxis that acknowledges and honors Black women’s transnational intellectual production.” The campaign started with t-shirts to show advocation of black women empowerment and grew to include canon and citation across academic disciplines as well as … Continue reading Citing Black Women
Cite Black Women Who Write Science Fiction
Hello Reader, This week I have been asked to speak on the topic of “Cite Black Women”. This is a movement that is encouraging educators and academics to integrate the work of black women into their studies. This movement fights for the recognition of the achievements of black women. I believe that this is a … Continue reading Cite Black Women Who Write Science Fiction
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