Episode Details

Recorded on Juneteenth 2025, we discussed the movie, American Fiction, starring Jeffrey Wright, Tracey Ellis Ross, Sterling K. Brown, and Ericka Alexander. We talked about the major themes in the movie, who gets to decide what is “authentic” and what is “Black”, the relationship between this movie and Hollywood Shuffle, Bamboozled, and Dear White People, why this movie needed a little more Tracey Ellis Ross and how the book the movie, based on the book Erasure, sets up some of the fantastic dialogue in the movie.