The Blaxploitation era fostered a movement of black people making their own films and black actors playing more roles, but even more importantly, it led to some of the best music of the time. Blaxploitation films are not without controversy, as they often depicted characters who were pimps, thieves, hookers and vagrants the counter to that, however, is that these characters were always the heroes against “The Man” who was trying to bring them down. It’s a genre that has passed the test of time due to being one of the early instances in which black actors and actresses got to star and create their own films-allowing these actors to play more than the servitude and slave roles they were often given. The Blaxploitation era was the black answer to the exploitation and grindhouse film era that began in the early ’70s.
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