He so named it because he claimed the genre was 'proliferating offenses' to the black community in its perpetuation of stereotypical characters often involved in criminal activity. The term, a portmanteau of the words 'black' and 'exploitation', was coined in August 1972 by Junius Griffin, then president of the Beverly Hills-Hollywood NAACP branch.
Poster of Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)īlaxploitation is an ethnic subgenre of the exploitation film that emerged in the United States during the early 1970s.
