"A genre of American film of the 1970s featuring African-American actors in lead roles and often having antiestablishment plots, frequently criticized for stereotypical characterization and glorification of violence. While African-American filmmakers were substantially involved in making early movies in this genre, their participation in subsequent productions was minimal."
(http://www.answers.com/topic/blaxploitation#ixzz1E1aASPqA)
Famous blaxploitation films include:
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
Shaft
Superfly
Trouble Man
Coffy
Black Caesar
Foxy Brown
Mandingo
Passion Plantation
Dolemite
Darktown Strutters
The Mack
Willie Dynamite
The Wiz
Blacula
Blackenstein
Boss Nigger
Cleopatra Jones
Pootie Tang
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