Saturday, January 11, 2020

I Am Not Your Negro (France/USA: Raoul Peck, 2016)




I Am Not Your Negro (France/USA: Raoul Peck, 2016: 95 mins)

Als, Hilton. "Capturing James Baldwin's Legacy Onscreen." The New Yorker (February 13, 2017)

Baldwin, James. "A Talk to Teachers." (PDF: 1963)

---. "The Creative Process." (PDF: 1962)

---. "Going to Meet the Man." (PDF: 1965)

---. "Go the Way Your Blood Beats." (PDF: 1984)

---. "The New Lost Generation." (PDF: 1961)

---. "Notes of a Native Son." (PDF: 1955)

---. "On Being White ... and Other Lies." (1984)  Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White. ed. David Roediger. Schocken Press, 1998: 177-180.

---. "Sonny's Blues." (PDF: 1957)

Baldwin, James, et al. "I Am Not Your Negro." Making Contact (November 8, 2017) ["Master 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 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."]

Baldwin, James, et al. "I Was There." The Paris Review Podcast #3 (2018) ["LeVar Burton recreates the Review's Art of Fiction interview with James Baldwin; Morgan Parker reads her poem HOTTENTOT VENUS; Dakota Johnson reads a poem by Dorothea Lasky; and Lorin Stein reads WHY DON'T YOU DANCE, a classic story by Raymond Carver. "]

Casmier, Stephen. "Did I Get James Baldwin Wrong?" Codeswitch (February 5, 2017)

Clark, Ashley, Violet Lucca and Amy Taubin. "Identity." Film Comment (January 17, 2017) ["Ideology and aesthetics have somehow come to be positioned opposite one another—in film criticism, should one be privileged over the other? This episode of The Film Comment Podcast discusses how race, ethnicity, and other markers of identity factor into film criticism and cinema generally. FC Digital Editor Violet Lucca unpacks the topic with Amy Taubin, Contributing Editor to FC and Artforum, and Ashley Clark, FC contributor and programmer, in a conversation that spans multiple decades of film history—from Taxi Driver to OJ: Made in America to Notting Hill to I Am Not Your Negro, to the canceled Michael Jackson episode of Urban Myths starring Joseph Fiennes."]

Clarke, Cheryl, et al. "The Fire This Time." Public Seminar (April 3, 2019) ["Violence against African American people creates pain and outrage, but policy makers offer us few solutions. In this episode, we ask: how can the fight for racial justice be accelerated, even as racism remains as persistent today as it was before the modern Civil Rights movement? In the spirit of writer James Baldwin’s vehement call for black liberation, this Exiles on 12th Street episode, the second in our series, gives voice to local activists and artists fighting for change. Come think with us about civil rights with our guests: civil rights lawyer Douglas White, community organizer Cidra Sebastien, the Reverend Marcus McCullough, and poet Cheryl Clarke. The episode is presented by your host, historian Claire Potter, executive editor of Public Seminar."]

Crump, Andy. "You Can't Keep Up: Raoul Peck and I Am Not Your Negro's Call To Action." Paste (February 1, 2017)

Dixon, Osato. "I Am Not Your Negro: Baldwin Doc Affirms Troubling Truths of Race in America." NBC News (February 3, 2017)

Erickson, Steven. "'There Cannot Be a Dream If It's Based On a Lie': I Am Not a Negro director Raoul Peck on James Baldwin, active citizenship, and America." Keyframe (February 2, 2017)

Hart, Harrison. "I Am Not Your Negro." Letterboxd (April 19, 2018)

Hedges, Chris. "James Baldwin and the Meaning of Whiteness." Truthdig (February 19, 2017)
Orr, Niela. "The Defiant I Am Not Your Negro." The Baffler (February 10, 2017)

Pavlic, Ed. "Baldwin's Lonely Country." Boston Review (March 29, 2018)

Peck, Raoul. "I Am Not Your Negro." Film Comment Podcast (January 31, 2017)

Peck, Raoul, et al. "Beyonce to Baldwin and Back Again." Still Processing #24 (April 16, 2017)

Peck, Raoul, et al. "I Am Not Your Negro / Film Comment @ Sundance." The Close-Up #120 (January 24, 2017)

Pinckney, Darryl. "Under the Spell of James Baldwin." The New York Review of Books (March 23, 2017)

Rainer, Peter. "I Am Not Your Negro Shows That the World Today is Poorer for Not Having James Baldwin's Views." The Christian Science Monitor (February 24, 2017)

"Raoul Peck." WTF #789 (February 27, 2017) ["Filmmaker Raoul Peck spent more than a decade putting together the documentary I Am Not Your Negro, a powerful film illuminating the words and life of writer and social critic James Baldwin. But as Marc learns in this conversation, Raoul’s own backstory of living under dictatorships, studying across four continents, and learning how to engage activism through art is just as important in understanding how to respond to the world today."]

Rose, Steve. "'We can't wait for Hollywood to change' - the directors reframing black history." The Guardian (April 1, 2017) ["From Raoul Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro to Ava DuVernay’s 13th, the factual film-makers tackling race in the era of Black Lives Matter."]

Rosenberg, Alyssa. "If You Love Cultural Criticism, You Have to See I Am Not Your Negro." The Washington Post (February 2, 2017)

Scott, A.O. "I Am Not Your Negro Will Make You Rethink Race." The New York Times (February 2, 2017)

Vogel, Joseph. "The Forgotten Baldwin." The Boston Review (May 14, 2018)

Woubshet, Dagmawi. "The Imperfect Power of I Am Not Your Negro." The Atlantic (February 8, 2017) ["Raoul Peck’s documentary brings to life James Baldwin’s urgent ideas about race in America, even if it leaves out a key aspect of the writer’s life and work: his sexuality."]































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