Film viewing in Lumière for FASoS: ‘I Am Not Your Negro’

Where: Lumière Cinema, Maastricht
Important film: ‘I Am Not Your Negro’ (text by the famous author James Baldwin)
When: Thursday 8 February, 16.15-17.50 and 18.15-19.50 (you can choose)
Tickets: €5,00 for students and staff members
Interested?: buy your tickets via the Lumiere website, so that the Cinema has an indication how many students will come, and when (16:15 or 18:15). The menu on the website says ‘students’, but staff members can buy via the same link.

Why for FASoS students?
‘I Am Not Your Negro’ is not only directly relevant for several courses, lectures, and minors offered at FASoS for both ES- and A&C-students on globalization, media, diversity, and racism (such as On Expedition, Cultural Pluralism, Area Studies, A De-colonizing World, Political Culture, Great Thinkers, and Crucial Differences), but it is also a very important historical, philosophical and rhetorical documentary.
Historically it gives an impressive picture of racism in the USA during the 1960s; only fifty years ago.
Philosophically and rhetorically the documentary immerses us in the language and thinking of the important American author James Balwin, struggling to find the historical and ideological roots of racism.

The Film
Told entirely in the words of writer James Baldwin, director Raoul Peck’s stunning Oscar-nominated documentary I Am Not Your Negro touches on the tragic deaths of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and Medgar Evers to explore what it means to be Black in America today.

Built exclusively around an unfinished manuscript by James Baldwin, the film delves into the complex legacy of three men that permanently marked the American social and political landscape. Peck matches Baldwin’s lyrical rhetoric with rich archival footage of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, and connects these historical struggles for justice and equality to the present-day movements that have taken shape in response to the recent killings of young African-American men.

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