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150: Blaxploitation and the White Backlash (Six Degrees of Song of the South, Episode 5)
150: Blaxploitation and the White Backlash (Six Degrees of Song of the South, Episode 5)
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Length:
52 minutes
Released:
Nov 19, 2019
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Podcast episode
Description
Song of the South’s most successful re-release came in 1972 at a time when Hollywood was dealing with race by making two very different kinds of movies: Blaxploitation films, which gave black audiences a chance to see black characters triumph against white authority figures; and movies like Dirty Harry, which were emblematic of a concurrent cultural and political shift away from the Civil Rights Movement and toward Reagan-style Republicanism.
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Released:
Nov 19, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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