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    Sims explores the roles and experiences of Black women in Blaxploitation films of the 1970s. These films allowed Black actors to portray themselves, rather than how whites portrayed them. Women faced three main roles - the heroine, the honey, or the ho. The heroine was the main character fighting crime, while the honey was the wife and the ho had affairs but did little else. While the genre opened opportunities, women were often accessories to male leads. The book Women of Blaxploitation shows how some women paved new ways and standards despite the limitations of societal expectations.

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    Sims explores the roles and experiences of Black women in Blaxploitation films of the 1970s. These films allowed Black actors to portray themselves, rather than how whites portrayed them. Women faced three main roles - the heroine, the honey, or the ho. The heroine was the main character fighting crime, while the honey was the wife and the ho had affairs but did little else. While the genre opened opportunities, women were often accessories to male leads. The book Women of Blaxploitation shows how some women paved new ways and standards despite the limitations of societal expectations.

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    Sims explores the roles and experiences of Black women in Blaxploitation films of the 1970s. These films allowed Black actors to portray themselves, rather than how whites portrayed them. Women faced three main roles - the heroine, the honey, or the ho. The heroine was the main character fighting crime, while the honey was the wife and the ho had affairs but did little else. While the genre opened opportunities, women were often accessories to male leads. The book Women of Blaxploitation shows how some women paved new ways and standards despite the limitations of societal expectations.

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    Sims explores the roles and experiences of Black women in Blaxploitation films of the 1970s. These films allowed Black actors to portray themselves, rather than how whites portrayed them. Women faced three main roles - the heroine, the honey, or the ho. The heroine was the main character fighting crime, while the honey was the wife and the ho had affairs but did little else. While the genre opened opportunities, women were often accessories to male leads. The book Women of Blaxploitation shows how some women paved new ways and standards despite the limitations of societal expectations.

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    Sims explores the racial and gender experiences throughout just the Chapter 1 of the book

    Women of Blaxploitation​. During this time period of the 70s Blaxploitation was a genre of film
    that made it so African Americans were able to express themselves and show their true colors
    rather than what the whites were making movies about. This book on the other hand opened up
    the opportunity for African American women during this time period to pave a way for
    themselves and make a “name” to change their standards that society had put on them. The
    typical role of women was three different types. The heroine, the honey or the ho and I think just
    by those names you can tell what is meant. The heroine was the main character that was a
    woman fighting crime and being the hero throughout the film. The honey was where the woman
    in the film was the wife of the main character of the film and then the ho was when the main
    character was having an affair with a woman. The role was mostly positive and had some
    attributes to the film but on the other hand if the woman was the ho in the film they were not
    much of an attribute to the film they were kind of just there. I would say that women during this
    time played a role of almost being an accessory in most films. I feel as though most
    Blaxploitation films really had main characters that were males so they were not always the
    heroine in the film. ​Women of Blaxploitation​ shows though that women during this time and for
    this specific genre opened up many opportunities for other women.
    Throughout the film of ​SuperFly​ the whole movie is about how the characters are being
    motivated by the drug dealing game and specifically the dealing of cocaine. Although Priest is
    really trying to redirect and get out of the game of crime he still was involved and everyone
    surrounding him is motivated by that. Dreams play a huge role throughout the film in terms that
    Priest has dreams of having a better life for himself! The life of being involved in drugs and
    crime is not for him anymore and he wants better. After realizing this it turns his whole life
    completely around. Now Priest ends his love affair because it is not what he wants anymore as
    well as he completely gives up the drug ring after one final task. I feel as though Priest’s dreams
    are what completely navigated him to choose a different path for him and his love Georgia.
    Throughout the film the characters emotions truly display the states that they are in
    currently. When it comes to Priest he doesn’t want to be in the drug game anymore of selling
    cocaine and that shows through him not budging on what he wants to do. When it comes to
    Eddie he isn’t ready to leave this lifestyle and it truly shows through him being so stubborn with
    Priest in not doing this final task. He also ends up snitching on Priest to the policemen about his
    plan in order to get Priest in trouble. That shows the audience completely his emotions and
    feelings that he does not care about Priest and just cares about the money strictly. Then on
    another hand there is Georgia who is showing the emotions of wanting Priest to not be involved
    in all of this because she hates the life of crime, although she loves Priest she wants him to give
    this up and is happy when she finally hears that he is. The emotions of the characters truly do
    show you the states that they’re in and what they want.

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