What Was Blaxploitation? New Book Charts the Influential Genre’s Highs and Lows
Like Impressionism, Cubism, and, to a certain extent, jazz, Blaxploitation was a calumny that its practitioners took on as a badge of honor. Who doesn’t enjoy thumbing one’s nose at presumed arbiters of moral virtue?
Isaac Hayses's 'Theme From Shaft' is among the most distinctive earworms extant, an inescapable cultural landmark. Getty Images
