If you watch "I Am Not Your Negro," you'll spend a kaleidoscopic and transporting 90 minutes living inside James Baldwin's mind, coming thrillingly close to his existential perception of the hidden meaning of race in America.
Overview
Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the United States.
Director and cast
- Raoul Peck Director
- Samuel L. Jackson as Narrator (voice)
- James Baldwin as Himself (archive footage)
- JoeyStarr as Narrateur (voix-off)
- Malcolm X as Himself (archive footage)
- Arnold Schwarzenegger as Self
- Martin Luther King Jr. as Himself (archive footage)
- Billy Dee Williams as Self
- Medgar Evers as Himself (archive footage)
- Rod Steiger as Self
- Ray Charles as Himself (archive footage)
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Top critics, in their words
A stirring, stinging memorial.
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