Engagement and Social Critique of Racism in the US Society in the documentary "I am not your Negro".

Abstract

The critical review analyzes the documentary "I am not your negro" with direction of the Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck. The production focuses on an unfinished project of the American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet and social critic James Baldwin. The narrative has a cinematographic montage in chapters and three levels, they are: the writing of Remember this house (book that inspires the script of the film presented through narrator Over), the engagement of Baldwin beyond his works, in speech and the current context as a materialization of the diagnosis given by the critic.