I Am Not Your Negro
@ Block Museum
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Monday, October 16th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
I Am Not Your Negro
Monday, October 16 6:30pm
(Raoul Peck, 2016, USA/Switzerland/Belgium/France, digital, 93 min.)
In person: director Raoul Peck
One of the most acclaimed documentaries from last year, Raoul Peck’s Oscar-nominated I Am Not Your Negro takes as a starting place author James Baldwin’s (Go Tell It on the Mountain) unfinished manuscript for Remember This House. Over the course of the film, Peck uses Baldwin’s observations on his contemporary civil rights leaders Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr, on racism in American society and history, and on the depiction of African Americans in cinema. Part history lesson, part biography, part essay, I Am Not Your Negro uses the power and eloquence of Baldwin’s words (both in archival footage of the author himself and as spoken by narrator Samuel L. Jackson) to connect the racial segregation of Baldwin’s youth and young adulthood, though the civil rights era, to our own still racially-troubled contemporary moment. “Outstanding†— The Guardian
Raoul Peck is the School of Communication’s 2018 Hoffman Visiting Artist for Documentary Media, funded by a generous gift from Jane Steiner Hoffman and Michael Hoffman. Additional support from Dwight A. McBride, James Baldwin Scholar and former Northwestern TGS Dean/Associate Provost.
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