I Am Not Your Negro

The New York Times bestseller based on the Oscar nominated documentary film In June 1979, the writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin embarked on a project to tell the story of America through the lives of three of his murdered friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. He died before it could be completed. In his documentary film, I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck imagines the book Baldwin never wrote, using his original words to create a radical, powerful and poetic work on race in the United States - then, and today. 'Thrilling . . . A portrait of one man's confrontation with a country that, murder by murder, as he once put it, "devastated my universe"' The New York Times 'Baldwin's voice speaks even more powerfully today . . . the prose-poet of our injustice and inhumanity . . . The times have caught up with his scalding eloquence' Variet y 'A cinematic seance . . . One of the best movies about the civil rights era ever made' Guardian ' I Am Not Your Negro turns James Baldwin into a prophet' Rolling Stone

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Lets James Baldwin's searing work soar . . . you will be astounded by the brilliance of his polemic Geoffrey Macnab Independent

Product details

• Authors: James Baldwin, James Peck Baldwin, Raoul Peck, Peck Raoul
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.04.2017
• EAN: 9780141986678
• ISBN: 978-0-14-198667-8
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 11 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, PERFORMING ARTS / Screenplays, United States of America, USA, c 1954 to c 1968 (era of the American Civil Rights Movement), Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, Film Scripts & Screenplays, Film scripts and screenplays