blaxploitation love

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A film genre of the 1970s featuring African-American actors and often having antiestablishment plots, sometimes criticized for stereotypical characterization and glorification of violence.

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  • noun A genre of exploitation films of the 1970s that starred black actors.

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  • noun the exploitation of black people (especially with regard to stereotyped roles in movies)

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Blend of black and exploitation.]

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Blend of black and exploitation (from exploitation film).

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  • An ethnic subgenre of the exploitation film that emerged in the United States during the early 1970s. The term, a portmanteau of the words "black" and "exploitation", was coined in August 1972 by Junius Griffin, then president of the Beverly Hills-Hollywood NAACP branch. He so named it because he claimed the genre was "proliferating offenses" to the black community in its perpetuation of stereotypical characters often involved in criminal activity.

    August 8, 2022