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Later spoofs parodying the blaxploitation genre
include I’m Gonna Git You Sucka, Pootie Tang, Undercover
Brother and The Hebrew Hammer, which featured a Jewish
protagonist, and was jokingly referred to by its
director as a “Jewsploitation” film.
A more recent parody is the invention of the
Botsploitation genre championed by the website
botsploitation.com featuring robotic version of famous
cultural personalities.
Robert Townsend’s comedy Hollywood Shuffle features a
young black actor who is tempted to take part in a
white-produced blaxploitation film.
The anime series Cowboy Bebop features several
episodes with blaxploitation themes, particularly
Mushroom Samba which extensively parodies blaxploitation
movies.
The Onion’s book Our Dumb Century has an article from
the 1970s entitled “Congress Passes Anti-Blaxploitation
Act: Pimps, Players Subject to Heavy Fines.”
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