James Baldwin e o Racismo nos Estados Unidos: Uma análise do filme Eu não sou seu negro (2017)

Abstract

This research work aims to analyze Raoul Peck's 2017 feature-film, I Am Not Your Negro, investigating the resources that the film uses to elaborate its argument on racism in the United States of America. In this way, at the beginning of this Master Thesis some information about who the filmmaker Raoul Peck is, his filmography, and the writer James Baldwin, who is the main character of the film (once the film uses his writing and vision on the subject). In the course of this work, a discussion is conducted about cinema as an art and how much it was/is influenced by political processes, especially those that are structured from colonialism and racial slavery, directing the focus to Black American Cinema. It also aims to discuss what documentary film is, as well as to involve into the more specific analysis of the film I Am Not Your Negro (2017), commenting on scenes through the analysis of shots, editing, soundtrack etc., in order to highlight criticism made in the film regarding to the stereotyped representations that the black population undergoes in mainstream cinema and beyond. To substantiate this work, an overview of the American racial context is made, in dialogue with the historical references brought in the cinematographic work itself. This work uses authors from the Human Sciences field to support the discussions, but it also uses other films as a source that reinforces the discussion on the subject of this work, and are also important sources of knowledge.