Yvonne Sims is Assistant Professor at South Carolina State University and the author of Women of Blaxploitation: How the Black Action Film Heroine Changed American Popular Culture. Her work appears in Encyclopaedia Britannica as part of a joint publishing agreement with SAGE Publications, which published Encyclopedia of Race and Crime, where the work originally appeared.
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With the Civil Rights movement of the sixties fresh in their perspective, movie producers of the early 1970s began to make films aimed toward the underserved African American audience. Over the next five years or so, a number of cheaply made, so-called blaxploitation movies featured African American actresses in roles which broke traditional molds. Typically long on flash and violence but lacking in character depth and development, this genre nonetheless did a great deal toward redefining the...