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Blaxploitation Films - J.R. Valery writes about how the films influenced hip-hop.
Blaxploitation.com - Includes an introduction to the genre, list of films and links to related articles.
Sticking It To The Man: Blaxploitation Movies - List of films in the genre, with brief synopses and partial cast lists.
Black Voices: Blaxploitation - Overview of the genre's history with a list of films, plus multimedia resources including photos, audio and video clips.
Blaxploitation - Examining the popularity of these films and the influence they have had on cinema since.
Reassessing 'Baadasssss' blaxploitation films - [CNN]
Bright Lights Film Journal: Blaxploitation - Gary Morris examines the genre, with particular reference to Pam Grier.
Cosmic Groove - French record shop specialized in soul, funk, jazz, lounge, exotica, latin, blaxploitation, and afrobeat.
FunkMasterJ's Pad - Funk music, Blaxploitation movies, and Toasts (Black oral folk poetry).
Black To The Future - Neil Gladstone looks at the genre with particular reference to the documentary and e-zine by David Walker.

Blaxploitation - Blaxploitation is a film genre that emerged in the United States in the early 1970s when many exploitation films were made that targeted the urban black audience; the word itself is a portmanteau of the words “black” and “exploitation.” Blaxploitation films starred primarily black actors, and were the first to feature soundtracks of funk and soul music.
List of blaxploitation films - This is a list of films belonging to the Blaxploitation genre. This also includes films that have been very important to the genre.
The Mack - The Mack is a 1973 blaxploitation film starring Max Julien and Richard Pryor. This movie was produced during the era of such blaxploitation movies as Dolemite, however it is not considered by its makers a true blaxploitation picture.
Darius James - Darius James (aka Dr. Snakeskin) is the black American author of That's Blaxploitation: Roots of the Baadasssss 'Tude (Rated X by an All'Whyte Jury), an unorthodox, semi-autobiographical history of the blaxploitation film genre, and Negrophobia: An Urban Parable, a satiric novel written in screenplay form.
Trouble Man (Marvin Gaye song) - "Trouble Man" is a 1972 hit single for American soul singer Marvin Gaye on the Tamla (Motown) label. Written and produced by Gaye as an autobiographical funk/blues account of his troubled prevails (and the prevails of "Mister T", the leading character of the blaxploitation film of the same name).