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whitesploitation

whitesploitation noun: a type of film that portrays white people in a stereotypical manner, intended to appeal to lurid or lowbrow tastes.

Noun

whitesploitation (uncountable)

  1. A type of film that portrays white people in a stereotypical manner, intended to appeal to lurid or lowbrow tastes.
    • While the Pam Grier Collection has "Foxy Brown," "Coffy," and "Friday Foster," The Elvis Gift Set (Paramount, $59.80) offers five classic whitesploitation flicks: "Fun in Acapulco," "G. I. Blues," "Paradise, Hawaiian Style," "Blue Hawaii" and "King Creole."1998, Newsweek, volume 132, page 88
    • You had whitesploitation films, too: Chained Heat, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and all that junk.2003, Joe Bobb Briggs, Profoundly Disturbing: Shocking Movies that Changed History!, Universe, →ISBN, page 125

Origin of whitesploitation

From white + -sploitation.

Questions about whitesploitation

What does whitesploitation mean?
Whitesploitation means a type of film that portrays white people in a stereotypical manner, intended to appeal to lurid or lowbrow tastes.
What part of speech is whitesploitation?
Whitesploitation is a noun.

Words near whitesploitation in the dictionary

  1. whitesplained
  2. whitesplainer
  3. whitesplainers
  4. whitesplaining
  5. whitesplains
  6. whitesploitation
  7. whitespot
  8. whitespots
  9. whitespotted
  10. whitest
  11. whitestart

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