blaxploitation

noun

blax·​ploi·​ta·​tion ˌblak-(ˌ)splȯi-ˈtā-shən 

: the exploitation of Black people by producers of Black-oriented films

—often used before another noun

blaxploitation movies

Examples of blaxploitation in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

William Marshall, Blacula (1972), Scream Blacula Scream (1973) Dismissed at the time as just another blaxploitation thriller, Blacula is an ultrastylish funk classic. —Celia Mattison, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024

Ganja & Hess centers on an anthropologist who turns vampire after being stabbed with a cursed dagger, but Gunn was not interested in appeasing the capitalist appetite for another blaxploitation piece in the early ’70s. —Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2024

Amos also starred in Melvin Van Peebles‘ blaxploitation classic Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971), and co-starred alongside Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall in Coming to America (1988). —Mya Abraham, VIBE.com, 1 Oct. 2024

Although Black audiences had been courted before, this was done mostly with blaxploitation pictures like Shaft and Super Fly. —Stacey Wilson Hunt, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Aug. 2024

Word History

Etymology

blend of blax- (alteration of blacks) and exploitation

First Known Use

1972, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for blaxploitation

• abdication
• aberration
• abjuration
• abnegation
• abrogation
• acceptation
• acclamation
• acclimation
• accusation
• activation
• actuation
• acylation