Word: asserts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cover. She was also a sex symbol at a time when black actors rarely had love scenes. Says Darius James, author of the book That's Blaxploitation!: "Pam Grier was one of the first important female action heroes. She was able to both exploit the male libido and assert [physical] power over men." Coffy and Foxy Brown may be shoddy films, but they serve up sex and violence in visceral ways. At the start of Foxy Brown, Grier hides a gun in her bra. It's an image one imagines the young Tarantino appreciated...
...rests on very shaky ground. The NAACP fails to point out that 48 percent of the Texan prison population is black. In general, in certain parts of the United States, some groups sadly constitute a much higher proportion of the criminal population than of the general one. If we assert the inherent racism of capital punishment, we have to declare incarceration to be racist; indeed, we must indict our justice system as a whole...
...Indigenous educational theories are being recycled in contemporary Western educational philosophy," Cajete said. He said he believes indigenous communities need to assert themselves in this period of change in education...
...balances the inherent realism with an aura of dark fantasy. Lemmons implicitly contrasts the rational Louis, whose concerns are limited to those of the modern world, with the spiritual Mozelle. The practice of voodoo plays a natural role within the Batiste family. The adolescent Cisely rejects the practice to assert her authority, while Eve gradually learns to grasp Mozelle's clairvoyance...
...This ceremony has become a way to celebrate our culture and assert our presence, especially at Harvard," Tirres said...