{"id":8141,"date":"2009-11-06T12:05:22","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T19:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=8141"},"modified":"2009-11-06T12:11:53","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T19:11:53","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-black-power-statuette-do-it-yourself-coloring-kit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-black-power-statuette-do-it-yourself-coloring-kit\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis’ Kitsch O’ The Day – Black Power Statuette Do-It-Yourself Coloring Kit"},"content":{"rendered":"\"black-power-statuette_5043\"\n

A black power statuette raising his fist in pride but when you pull him outta the box he’s a white man…! This is one of the greatest examples of Soul Kitsch in my collection. So perfect a product in the late 60’s for a market that had long been under-served in terms of ubiquitous pop culture memorabilia. But like The Supremes White Bread<\/a> and Touch O’ Soul “Off-Black” pantyhose<\/a> featured earlier in this blog, and boasting on the box that it’s a “Equality- Justice statuette”, couldn’t the product manager have spent a few more minutes thinking about his target audience and poured a little tan tint into the resin before locking down the molds?<\/p>\n

Made of “sturdy plastic with base tab” (whatever a base tab is), The Black Power Statuette was manufactured by Zap-Co of Roseville, Michigan.<\/p>\n\"black-power-statuette_4012\"\n\"black-power-statuette_4014\"\n\"black-power-statuette_5037\"\n\"black-power-statuette_5041\"\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A black power statuette raising his fist in pride but when you pull him outta the box he’s a white man…! This is one of the greatest examples of Soul Kitsch in my collection. So perfect a product in the late 60’s for a market that had long been under-served in terms of ubiquitous pop … read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,107,87,193,167,81,37,585],"tags":[61,645,3232,3245],"class_list":["post-8141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afro","category-empowerment","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-memorabilia","category-products","category-self-expression","category-toy","tag-allee-willis","tag-black-power-statuette","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}