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‘American Fiction’ asks who gets to decide Blackness

January 05, 2024
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Jeffrey Wright stars in ‘American Fiction,’ a satirical film which raises questions about race and commodity and diversity By Anthony Stewart (Special to BHN) The much-anticipated American Fiction came to theaters last month. As a long-time scholar of Percival Everett, the author whose 2001 novel, Erasure, was adapted for this critically praised film I am curious

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