whitesploitation

whitesploitation

English

Etymology

white +‎ -sploitation

Noun

whitesploitation (uncountable)

1. (film) A type of film that portrays white people in a stereotypical manner, intended to appeal to lurid or lowbrow tastes.
   • 1998, Newsweek, Volume 132, page 88:

     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."

   • 2003, Joe Bobb Briggs, Profoundly Disturbing: Shocking Movies that Changed History!, Universe (2003), →ISBN, page 125:

     You had whitesploitation films, too: Chained Heat, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and all that junk.

   • 2012, Tim Kreider, We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons, Simon & Schuster (2012), →ISBN, page 107:

     What Ken never understood was that the only thing Harold and I really excelled at was fucking around—coming up with idiotic ideas and filthy daydreams, projects like the pornographic version of The Cat in the Hat, the whitesploitation film Kung-Fu Honky, […]

Hyponyms

• hixploitation