Introduction: BlacKkKlansman, "On the Right Side of History"?

• Published in: Black camera : the newsletter of the Black Film Center/Archives Vol. 13; no. 2; pp. 203 - 206
• Main Author: Letort, Delphine
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bloomington Indiana University Press 01.04.2022
• Subjects: Blaxploitation films; Hate speech; Humor; Intertextuality; Lee, Spike; Militancy; Motion picture directors & producers; Motion pictures; Police; Political activism; Politics; Power; Racism; Rhetoric; Social classes; Trump, Donald J; White supremacy; New York; United States > US

Loosely based on former police officer Ron Stallworth's recollections of his infiltration into the Colorado Springs chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, BlacKkKlansman (dir. Spike Lee, 2018) exploits the paradoxical situation of its black author passing for a white supremacist to integrate the "Or...