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• Blaxploitation

• Definition

• Common qualities

• Stereotypes

• Famous blaxploitation films

• Black Mama, White Mama

• Blacula

• Cleopatra Jones

• Cotton Comes to Harlem - Darktown Strutters

• Detroit 9000 - Dr. Black and Mr. Hyde - Dolemite

• Ebony, Ivory & Jade

• Hammer - Hit Man

• Jackie Brown - Johnny Tough - The Legend of Nigger Charley

• The Mack

• Drum

• Passion Plantation (1976)

• Sheba, Baby

• Space Is the Place (1974)

• Super Fly - Three the Hard Way - Trick Baby

• Trouble Man

• Truck Turner

• Willie Dynamite

• Later media references

• John Singleton’s remake of Shaft

• Snoop Dogg - Big Daddy Kane

• Parodies and spoofs

• I’m Gonna Git You Sucka

• FOX’s network television

• Ladies’ Man

• Adult Swim’s Aqua Teen Hunger Force series

• Drawn Together

• Beavis and Butthead Do America

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• Detroit 9000 (1973) is a 1973 blaxploitation feature film set in Detroit, MI, Street-smart white detective Danny Bassett (Rocco) teams with educated black detective Sgt. Jesse Williams (Rhodes) to investigate a theft of $400,000 at a fund-raiser for Representative Aubrey Hale Clayton (Challenger). Championed by Quentin Tarantino it was released on video by Miramax in April 1999.
• Dr. Black and Mr. Hyde is a retelling of the Jekyll and Hyde tale, starring Bernie Casey.

• Dolemite is a 1975 blaxploitation feature film, and is also the name of its principal character, played by Rudy Ray Moore, who co-wrote the film. Moore had developed the alter-ego as a stand-up comedian and released several comedy albums using this persona. The film was directed by D'Urville Martin, who appears as the villain Willie Green. The film has attained something of a cult status, earning it a following and making it more well known than many of its counterparts. A sequel, The Human Tornado, was released in 1976.

Blaxploitation - Ebony, Ivory & Jade

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