Where:
Parkway Central Library
1901 Vine Street (between 19th and 20th Streets on the Parkway)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Art, Film, Innovation, Lectures & Conferences
Event website:
https://libwww.freelibrary.org/calendar/event/83243
Darius James with Gene Seymour—Negrophobia: An Urban Parable
Tuesday March 12, 2019. 7:30 pm.
Free Library of Philadelphia—Parkway Central Library
1901 Vine Street (between 19th and 20th Streets on the Parkway)
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Gene Seymour is a contributor to The Nation and former film critic and jazz columnist for Newsday. He has written for Bookforum, CNN.com, and The Washington Post.
Author and spoken-word artist Darius James’s 1992 masterpiece, the William S. Burroughs meets Thomas Pynchon meets Ishmael Reed fever-dream Negrophobia, is a raunchy, raucous, headlong dive into the many faces of American racism. With other works including That's Blaxploitation: Roots of the Baadassssss 'Tude, Voodoo Stew, and Froggy Chocolate's Christmas Eve, James is the cowriter and narrator of the of 2013 film The United States of Hoodoo. With a new introduction by film scholar Amy Abugo Ongiri and a new preface by the author, the multi-genre Negrophobia is dire, darkly comic, and more relevant than ever.
This is a free-access event — entrance will be on a first-come, first-served basis.