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Exploring the Development of the Blaxploitation Era and the African American Heroine 

There is a great deal to learn from the Blaxploitation Era of the film industry.

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Nov 19, 2020
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Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970), widely considered the first film to display signs of Blaxploitation.

By Sabrina Fearon-Melville

You are now reading an exclusive piece from the Film Daze Digital Magazine, Issue 5: BLM. Enjoy! - The Film Daze Team

“The only crime I'm guilty of is being a young black woman”

-Foxy Brown

Blaxploitation cinema has been critiqued a…

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