whitesploitation

noun

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

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Meanings

nounwhitesploitation (uncountable)
  1. uncountablebroadcastingA type of film that portrays white people in a stereotypical manner, intended to appeal to lurid or lowbrow tastes.

    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
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    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

    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, […]

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

Origin

From white + -sploitation.

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whitesploitation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/whitesploitation

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Chicago

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