This Integration Period therefore brought together African-American actors with scenes along side white actors in roles showing both players dealing with racial conflict and resolution. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner was truly a unique film for its time in that Sidney Poitier's character breaks all the stereotypical views of blacks in American Cinema...
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In the early 1930's blacks were portrayed as lower class, slow-witted figures of entertainment, often showed in menstrual shows. Poitier's character broke all these stereotypes. 1971 brought to the big screen a successive series of superhero black or "blaxploitation" films. Shaft was released in 1971, and Richard Roundtree was the superman black hero detective...
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