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Another issue that was commonly dealt with was the issue of the Black woman’s body being exploited. In Dash’s ‘Illusions’, Ester’s voice is unfairly compensated in what is expected to be a “blockbuster” of a film; whereas, in Onwurah’s ‘Coffee Colored Children’, children chased each other around the playground with cootees that might turn them Black. Racial tensions can be seen in Ms. Dupree as she battles for her true identity in the face of Lt. Bedsworth outing her, and in young Ngozi saying, “I want to be a princess, a white princess.” The idea that Ms. Dupree was able to pass as being White, while Onwurah would have done anything to be ‘normal” or White, transcends as the major theme for both of these films.
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