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A Galaxy of Our Own

Searching for black women in science-fiction film
Article by Elyce Rae Helford, appeared in issue Is Biology Destiny?; published in 2001; filed under Film; tagged octavia butler, race, sci-fi, science fiction.

In the ’90s, the black man suddenly invaded the blockbuster science-fiction and fantasy film. African-American males found expanded roles for themselves in a genre that had previously been blindingly white. We finally have a celluloid landscape in which Will Smith and Wesley Snipes get to represent heroic manhood for the masses, but hip and powerful black women have been overlooked by the Hollywood machine so far.

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