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Doreen St. Félix

Doreen St. Félix

Television Critic / Writer at The New Yorker

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How Andrew Dosunmu Makes the Street His Studio

“I didn’t know this brother from nowhere,” Dosunmu recalls to the cinematographer Arthur Jafa, in the introductory conversation to “Andrew Dosunmu: Monograph,” a collagist collection of Dosunmu’s portraiture used across film, music, video, and photography. But knowledge arises from the gravity of a slung belt, the height of a gele wound about the head. Dosunmu is a great chronicler of presentation as a portal to personality. This might explain his lack of faith in fashion per se; lauded as he is…
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Danielle Brooks Comes Full Circle

Hadn’t “The Color Purple” already been wrung dry? It has been more than four decades since Alice Walker published her epistolary novel—a long view of the oppression visited on Celie Harris, a young Black girl in turn-of-the-century Georgia—and, in the intervening years, Walker’s story has been made into a film, a musical, a revived musical, and now a film again. A few weeks ago, the latest film’s director, Blitz Bazawule, admitted in the Los Angeles Times that he initially “didn’t see why it nee…
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Bryan Stevenson Reclaims the Monument, in the Heart of the Deep South

Your children love you. The country you built must honor you. We acknowledge the tragedy of your enslavement. We commit to advancing freedom in your name. The history of slavery is one of elisions and silences, of moving on. The civil-rights attorney Bryan Stevenson, who designed the monument, has taken a different approach, displaying the realities of enslavement on a monumental scale. His colossal book is the centerpiece of the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park, which opens in late March. Set o…
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Beyoncé Won’t Burn Down the Barn with “Cowboy Carter”

The cover art arrived ten days before the music, setting up a long runway for the kind of radiating psychodrama that no American pop artist stirs quite like Beyoncé. Who does she think she is, bringing her extravagance to country music? Is she a patriot, waving that flag in the air, or is she a satirist, like Mark Twain? Will the keepers of modern Black country music, artists such as Mickey Guyton and Brittney Spencer, be eclipsed or validated? Oh, and does her skin look lightened? Louder than a…
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How Lawrence Abu Hamdan Hears the World

In the Al Jazeera segment, Abu Hamdan explains how he knows the video is bunk: “The way that those explosions resounded were not consistent with the way her voice was resounding in that room and resonating.” He determined that the sound of the explosions had been added on to the video after the fact. Abu Hamdan goes on to tell the host that governments are often “complacent when it comes to sound,” even though sound analysis is sometimes the only tool that can be used to verify a contested act.…
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Kamala Harris, the Candidate

And now we have it. Harris has officially graduated from limbo. On Sunday afternoon, a day after the Cape Cod fund-raiser, Biden announced that he was ending his reëlection campaign. The announcement was remarkable for many reasons, the most basic being that it was accompanied by no images. There was no emergency press conference from Delaware, generating slapdash pomp. Biden wrote to the people, as if this were another century and he was a mariner gone on a long trip. (Albeit a mariner who know…
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The Messiness of Black Identity

Can language unify the people?
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The Reclamation of Jane Campion’s “In the Cut”

Although the movie has been reappraised as a masterpiece, it wants to remain kind of lost, as adrift from film canonization as its protagonist is from her own desires.
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Flag Waving and Flag Burning in Kamala Harris’s America

This past year, there has been a surfeit of so-called recontextualized patriotism, brightened and Blacked up, made sexy, both in culture and in politics.
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Girl, What Waist?

How the waist became the site of enduring race panic.
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The Divided Soul of “Bad Kreyòl”

Dominique Morisseau meditates on identity, and on the possibilities of language, in her new play, set in Haiti.