“I am Not Your Negro”: Race, Class and Social Justice. The James Baldwin Documentary and the African American Struggle.
NOVANEWS
Relevance in the United States Today
By Abayomi Azikiwe
Racial problems persists decades after African American literary awakenings
Review: I Am Not Your Negro
Filmmaker: Raoul Peck
Narration: Samuel L. Jackson
In the aftermath of World War II the African American people intensified their struggle against Jim Crow segregation for the acquisition of full equality and the right to political self-determination.
This resurgence in commitment towards realizing the objectives of previous generations from the period of slavery through Reconstruction, the Great Migration, the Harlem Renaissance and the Great Depression was exemplified on a literary level.
African Americans had utilized the pen as a method of protest and organization extending back into the 19th century...