num_pages: 144
description: To compose his stunning documentary film I Am Not Your Negro acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined James Baldwin s published and unpublished oeuvre selecting passages from his books essays letters notes and interviews that are every bit as incisive and pertinent now as they have ever been.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.
language: English
title: I Am Not Your Negro
publisher: Vintage