{"id":10768,"date":"2020-10-25T02:58:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T02:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tenzmag.com\/?p=10768"},"modified":"2024-02-01T22:55:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T22:55:38","slug":"name-black-vampires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenzmag.com\/name-black-vampires\/","title":{"rendered":"In The Name Of Black Vampires!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Black folks have been largely absent from vampire mythos, which is commonly accepted as white and European. Vampire fiction first appeared in 18th-century with the publication of Polidori&#8217;s <strong><em>The Vampyre<\/em><\/strong> and would solidify it\u2019s presence with the masterpiece of the genre, <em><strong>Bram Stoker&#8217;s Dracula<\/strong><\/em> in 1897.<\/h5>\n<h5>The melanated undead wouldn\u2019t make an appearance until the iconic 1972 Blaxploitation film <strong>Blacula<\/strong> starring Shakespearean actor William H. Marshall as Prince Mamuwalde.&nbsp; The film is often overlooked and stigmatized by it\u2019s era but it was led by William Crain, a black director and opens with a dynamic story of an African prince seeking out Count Dracula in an effort to put a stop to the slave trade.<\/h5>\n<h5>Although infrequent, there have been a few Black highlights in film in television over the past 50 years, including <em><strong>Queen Of The Damned<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>The Blade trilogy,<\/strong><\/em> which began Marvel&#8217;s film success setting the stage for further comic book film adaptations.<\/h5>\n<h5>Check Into Our List Below<\/h5>\n<p>[ngg src=&#8221;galleries&#8221; ids=&#8221;2&#8243; display=&#8221;basic_imagebrowser&#8221; display_view=&#8221;default&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black folks have been largely absent from vampire mythos, which is commonly accepted as white and European. Vampire fiction first appeared in 18th-century with the publication of Polidori&#8217;s The Vampyre and would solidify it\u2019s presence with the masterpiece of the genre, Bram Stoker&#8217;s Dracula in 1897. The melanated undead wouldn\u2019t make an appearance until the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,4449],"tags":[4085,4084,4076,4078,4081,4079,2053,4082,4083,4080,4077],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-10768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-learnd","tag-black-cinema","tag-black-vampires","tag-blacula","tag-blade","tag-grace-jones","tag-queen-of-the-damned","tag-scream-blacula-scream","tag-true-blood","tag-twilight","tag-vamp","tag-vampire"],"views":1900,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tenzmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IMG_7052.jpg?fit=1800%2C1012&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p86sOI-2NG","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenzmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenzmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenzmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenzmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenzmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10768"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/tenzmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16202,"href":"https:\/\/tenzmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10768\/revisions\/16202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenzmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenzmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenzmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenzmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10768"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenzmag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=10768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}