El camino de las heroínas negras: Blaxploitation

Abstract

In the United States feminism did not originate from the women that were more directly victims of the sexist oppression; mentally, physically and spiritually beaten daily; women without the necessary strength to change their life conditions” (Hooks, 2004, p.33). Feminist activists were white and wealthy class even as black women were a silent majority. Although many women were part of Black Power, the movement was defined and assembled in the media, the pop culture and the arts by men. These groups maintained a patriarchal organization; structures constituted by male leadership. They “realized of the nature of the male domination when participating in anti-classist and anti-racist spaces with men who spoke to the world about the importance of freedom despite subordinating the women among their own ranks” (Hooks, 2017, p.22). There was neither a place destined for black women amongst white feminists nor the Black Power of men.