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I am not your negro : a major motion picture directed by Raoul Peck / from texts by James Baldwin ; compiled and edited by Raoul Peck.

Baldwin, James, 1924-1987 (author.). Peck, Raoul, (compiler,, author of introduction, etc.).

Summary:

To compose his stunning documentary film "I Am Not Your Negro", filmmaker Raoul Peck mined James Baldwin s published and unpublished oeuvre, selecting passages from his books, essays, letters, notes, and interviews that are every bit as incisive and pertinent now as they have ever been. Weaving these texts together, Peck brilliantly imagines the book that Baldwin never wrote. In his final years, Baldwin had envisioned a book about his three assassinated friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King. His deeply personal notes for the project have never been published before. Peck s film uses them to jump through time, juxtaposing Baldwin s private words with his public statements, in a blazing examination of the tragic history of race in America.

Record details

ISBN: 9780525434696
Physical Description: xxiii, 118 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Edition: First vintage international edition.
Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 2017.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction / by Raoul Peck -- Note from Gloria Baldwin Karefa-Smart -- Paying my dues -- Heroes -- Witness -- Purity -- Selling the negro -- I am not a nigger.
Target Audience Note:	1000L Lexile.