Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before - Subversive Portrayals in Speculative Film and TVPaperback
Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before - Subversive Portrayals in Speculative Film and TVPaperback When Lieutenant Uhura took her place on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise on Star Trek, the…
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Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before - Subversive Portrayals in Speculative Film and TVPaperback
When Lieutenant Uhura took her place on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise on Star Trek, the actress Nichelle Nichols went where no African American woman had ever gone before. Challenging cinema's history of stereotyping or erasing black women on-screen, Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before showcases twenty-first-century examples that portray them as central figures of action and agency.Writing for fans as well as scholars, Diana Adesola Mafe looks at representations of black womanhood and girlhood in American and British speculative Yet several decades passed before many other black women began playing significant roles in speculative (i.e., science fiction, fantasy, and horror) film and television--a troubling omission, given that these genres offer significant opportunities for reinventing social constructs such as race, gender, and class.