I Am Not Your Negro: A Docalogue

As the inaugural volume in the Docalogue series, this book models a new form for the discussion of documentary film.

James Baldwin’s writing is intensely relevant to contemporary politics and culture, and Peck’s strategies for representing him and conveying his work in I Am Not Your Negro (2016) raise important questions about how documentary can bring the work of a complex thinker like Baldwin to a broader public. By combining five distinct perspectives on a single documentary film, this b...