Bethel University: Non-Western Art History: Terms of the Day and Images from Lecture November 14

AfriCOBRA – (African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists) a collective of AfricanAmerican artists in Chicago that specifically took on the goal of creating a new revolutionary black aesthetic.
Exploitation Film – an informal label which may be applied to any film which is generally considered to be both low budget and of low moral or artistic merit, and therefore apparently attempting to gain financial success by "exploiting" a current trend or a niche genre or a base desire for lurid subject matter.
Blaxploitation Film – a film genre which emerged in the United States in the 1970s aimed at an urban black audience. These films were often low-budget, had majority African American casts, and used funk music and urban slang of the time. They were often criticized for perpetuating stereotypes.