I’m Not Your Negro: Film Screening + Talk

On November 23, and to conclude the three days of live streaming, Dagmawi Woubshet - Ahuja Family Presidential Associate Professor of English, and author of the forthcoming book Here Be Saints: James Baldwin’s Late-Style, Professor Dagmawi Woubshet, will be in conversation with Sataan Al-Hassan, Senior Coordinator of Programming, Publications and Research at The Africa Institute, to discuss the critically acclaimed film I’m Not Your Negro, directed by Raoul Peck, and its relevance in today’s anti-black racism protests taking place across the world.

Synopsis
Filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin’s original words, read by Samuel L. Jackson 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 Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., Baldwin and Peck have produced a work that challenges the very definition of what America stands for.