"Baad bitches" and sassy supermamas: Black power action films

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Race, Gender, and Black Action Fantasy

1. The Pleasure of Looking: Black Female Spectatorship and the Supermama Heroine

2. Black Power and the New Baad Cinema

3. What's Sex and Women Got to Do with It? Sexual Politics and Revolution in Sweetback and The Spook

4. Race, Gender, and Sexual Power in Cleopatra Jones

5. Sexing the Supermama: Racial and Gender Power in Coffy and Foxy Brown

Afterword: Superbaad for the Twenty-First-Century Screen

Notes

Works Cited

Index