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

Dixon's first feature film as director was the blaxploitation thriller Trouble Man. —Meredith Wilshere, People.com, 8 June 2025

Talking about the title Who’s the Man, was that taken from blaxploitation flicks? —Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 3 Sep. 2019

Brewer helmed his first biopic with 2019's Dolemite Is My Name, which starred Eddie Murphy as blaxploitation legend Rudy Ray Moore. —Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 6 June 2025

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, 26 Apr. 2025

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