BAMS206 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Southern Christian Leadership Conference, National Urban League, Blaxploitation

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Black American Studies
• Course: BAMS206
• Professor: Drew Brown, Ph D

Document Summary

Shaft was the movie that started the blaxploitation. A sampling of the genre: sweetback"s baadassss song, the guy from harlem, foxy brown, super fly. Defining qualities: when set in the northeast or west coast, blaxploitation films are mainly set in poor neighborhoods, ethnic slurs against white characters, set in the south often deal with slavery and miscegenation, stereotypical. Made a profound impact on contemporary hip hop culture. Prominent hip hop artists adopting the no-nonsense pimp personal popularized by pimp and superfly: snoop dogg, big daddy kane, slick rick, too short.