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Dean’s Book (Movie) Review: I Am Not Your Negro


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Dean's Book (Movie) Review: I Am Not Your Negro

DATE: Friday, February 25 2022
TIME: 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm MST
LOCATION: College of Law
COST: Free and open to the public
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TALK DESCRIPTION:

Please join Dean Elizabeth Kronk Warner for a screening of the film “I am Not Your Negro,” written by James Baldwin and directed by Raoul Peck, as part of our celebration of Black History Month.

The film is an Oscar-nominated documentary narrated by Samuel L. Jackson that explores the continued peril America faces from institutionalized racism.

In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House. The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his close friends–Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of Baldwin’s death in 1987, he left behind only thirty completed pages of his manuscript.

Now, in his incendiary new documentary, master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin’s original words and flood of rich archival material. “I Am Not Your Negro” is a journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights Movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter. It is a film that questions black representation in Hollywood and beyond. And, ultimately, by confronting the deeper connections between the lives and assassination of these three leaders, Baldwin and Peck have produced a work that challenges the very definition of what America stands for.

You would be hard-pressed to find a movie that speaks to the present moment with greater clarity and force, insisting on uncomfortable truths and drawing stark lessons from the shadows of history.” – A.O. Scott, The New York Times

This Oscar-nominated portrait of James Baldwin uses the author’s words to bridge the civil-rights past with our racially incendiary present. It’s unmissable and unforgettable.” – Peter Travers, The Rolling Stone

You may also view this documentary on Netflix if you have a subscription.

 

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