Word: sweetback
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Abbey Taking Off at the Cheri Sweet Sweetback's Baadasss Song at the Music Hall
...worst and most misanthropic of the new films is Melvin van Peebles' Sweet Sweetback's Baadasss Song. A portrait of the Negro as the Great American Penis (the "sweet sweet-back" of the title character). it is a vile piece of ego-tripping by a black filmmaker who hopes (presumably by default) to become the "revolutionary" mass-media force of his people...