Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(orig. US) the use of black actors in a (usu.) low-budget film featuring a plot filled with sex and violence and peopled by stereotypes (pimps, prostitutes, drug dealers); also attrib.

1972		L.A. Times 8 Oct. 99/1: ‘Big-Bad-Black’ The movie being described was [...] yet another example of ‘blaxploitation’ films.
1974		Baltimore Sun (MD) 10 Mar. D11/1: Black drama and blaxploitation. You hear so much about ‘black film’ nowadays.
1978		Sat. Rev. (US) Dec. 35: The black glistening giants of blacksploitation films.
1987		G. Tate ‘Michael Jackson’ in Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992) 97: Jackson’s decolorized flesh reads as the buppy version of Dorian Gray, a blaxploitation nightmare.
1998		Source Oct. 232: Influenced by ’70s rhythm and blues and blaxploitation grooves.
2000		Indep. on Sun. Culture 26 Mar. 3: This is thoroughly old-school Blaxploitation.
2003		G. Tate Midnight Lightning 58: The Blaxploitation spy spoof.
2010		Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 31: Sabu is guilty of[...] impersonating a big-wheel dealer from a seventies blaxploitation flick.
2012		R. Milward Kimberly’s Capital Punishment (2023) 52: [P]atrons turned to stare at me when I entered, like a Blaxploitation OK Corral.
2016		Chicago Trib. 3 Apr. 9/1: He argues that ‘to lump all the black-themed films from 1971-1975 under the rubric of blaxploitation is to ghettoize them.