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- Mired in controversy as to whether its use of cartoonish black stereotypes made it racist, “Coonskin” was in fact trying to be a sharp satire on the popular blaxploitation genre.
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Its title was originally intended to break through racial stereotypes by its bluntness, but now the ads say the hero and his pals are out “to get the Man to stop calling them coonskin.” The movie’s original distributor, Paramount, dropped it after pressure from black groups.
Later re-released under the titles Bustin' Out and Street Fight, Coonskin has since been re-appraised, recontextualizing the film as the condemnation of racism that the director intended, rather than a product of a racist imagination, as its detractors had claimed.
Jul 20, 1975 · In his latest creation, called “Coonskin,” most of the major characters are black. Mixing live action and animation, and featuring such actors as Scatman Crothers, playwright Charles Gordone,...
Apr 27, 2008 · Mired in controversy as to whether its use of cartoonish black stereotypes made it racist, “Coonskin” was in fact trying to be a sharp satire on the popular blaxploitation genre.
Sep 11, 1975 · Several leaders of the Harlem chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality had vehemently attacked the film before its showing.
Through a textual analysis devoted to one scene of Coonskin, the chapter discusses the ideological texture of the film. Coonskin is a difficult film that challenges by exaggerating and redirecting the cathected intention of stereotypicality.
Coonskin has been dragged into the darkest realms of cinematic obscurity. When it was released in 1975, people panicked. Not since the 1940's has such racially insensitive jokes been made on African Americans.
