 The review noted that "Boss Nigger" was notable for its "old-fashioned bloodless violence".Writing in 2006, film critic Ryan Diduck described the marketing of "Boss Nigger" and other blaxploitation films to black audiences as an example of "empowerment through an overturned representation of long-established agency limitations for black men".Diduck specifically cited the trailer for "Boss Nigger" for the manner in which it elicits feelings of black superiority and white hysteria and encourages the audience to identify with the outsider hero who finds himself at odds with the rules of white America.