Blaxploitation

United States, 1970-1979

Blaxploitation is a film genre that emerged in the United States in the early 1970s when many exploitation films were made specifically (and perhaps exclusively) for an audience of urban black people; the word itself is a portmanteau of the words “black” and “exploitation.”
Blaxploitation films were the first to feature soundtracks of funk and soul music.
These films starred primarily black actors.
Variety magazine credited “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” with the invention of the blaxploitation genre. Others argue that the Hollywood-financed...