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Bookmark or Share- Blaxploitation - WikipediaThe term blaxploitation is a portmanteau of the words Black and exploitation, coined by Junius Griffin, president of the Beverly Hills–Hollywood branch of the NAACP in 1972.
- The 50 Best Blaxploitation Movies - IMDbBlaxploitation film about three martial-arts specialists who prevent white supremacists from tainting the U.S. water supply with a toxin that's only harmful to black people.
- Blaxploitation — An American Film Movement ExplainedBlaxploitation refers primarily to a wave of independently produced genre films of the early 1970s. The name is a portmanteau of ‘black’ and ‘exploitation.’ Blaxploitation films were produced independently and, typically, with extremely low budgets.
- Blaxploitation movies | Definition, History, Examples, & Facts | BritannicaBlaxploitation movies, group of films made mainly in the early to mid-1970s that featured Black actors in a transparent effort to appeal to Black urban audiences. Melvin Van Peebles’s Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971) is usually considered to be the first blaxploitation movie.
- Blaxploitation in American Media, a story - African American RegistryOften called blacksploitation is an ethnic subgenre of the exploitation film that emerged in the United States during the early 1970s. The films, while popular, endured backlash for disproportionate numbers of stereotypical film characters showing bad or questionable motives, including most roles as criminals resisting arrest.
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