I Am Not Your Negro can be best described as a manifesto for James Baldwin’s revolutionary brand of thought on American constructions of race, racism, and whiteness. Through the prism of archival footage, Baldwin’s own speeches, interviews, letters and essays (brilliantly narrated by Samuel L. Jackson) director Raoul Peck brings to life Baldwin’s blisteringly incisive insight as America’s foremost social critic, together with his cool rage as a black man living in the deep shadow of inequality and injustice.
