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blaxploitation definition

blax·ploi·ta·tion (blaks′plo̵i tā′s̸hən)

noun

the exploitation of African-American characters, settings, themes, etc. in commercial films: used esp. with regard to various films in the late 1960s and early 1970s that emphasized sex, violence, crime, etc. in urban African-American communities

Etymology: ? < bla(ck) + (se)x + (ex)ploitation

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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