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Blaxploitation Films

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Blackface Minstrelsy

The first distincly African American theatrical form.

3 reasons why Blaxploitation emerged?

The historic misrepresentation of African American in Film.
The struggle for civil rights.
Hollywood was struggling financially.

Blaxploitation movement

Films made between 1970 and 1975 by both black and white filmmakers in prefer to capitalize on the black film audience. Emerged as a result of events unique to a specific time in history positions it is a movement.

About being economically independent and cultural self determination.

What is a Sundown Town?

A hidden phenomenon: an organized jurisdiction that for decades kept African Americans from living in it and was thus "all-white" on purpose.