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The Black community’s relationship with growing food is colored by exploitive practices, from slavery to sharecropping, tenant farming and peonage, or debt servitude.
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Lyndsay C. Green, Detroit Free Press, 27 Nov. 2024
In Girls Gone Wild, the Untold Story, producers examine the life of Joe Francis, the founder of the multimillion-dollar franchise that profited off of exploitive videos featuring young spring breakers baring their breasts for T-shirts and hats.
—Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
Much has been made about whether the film is indeed a feminist statement, or an exploitive work, given the preponderance of beautiful, captive women in torn costumes.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 19 Nov. 2024
More than 80 women working at all levels of the film industry have come forward to accuse Weinstein of rape and assault during and after the height of the MeToo movement that called out exploitive or criminal behavior by powerful men in entertainment, politics and business.
—Sean Piccoli, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2024
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Lyndsay C. Green, Detroit Free Press, 27 Nov. 2024
In Girls Gone Wild, the Untold Story, producers examine the life of Joe Francis, the founder of the multimillion-dollar franchise that profited off of exploitive videos featuring young spring breakers baring their breasts for T-shirts and hats.
—Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2024
Much has been made about whether the film is indeed a feminist statement, or an exploitive work, given the preponderance of beautiful, captive women in torn costumes.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 19 Nov. 2024
More than 80 women working at all levels of the film industry have come forward to accuse Weinstein of rape and assault during and after the height of the MeToo movement that called out exploitive or criminal behavior by powerful men in entertainment, politics and business.
—Sean Piccoli, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2024
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“Exploitive.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exploitive. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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