2023 (117 mins)
Directors: Dean Fleischer Camp A novelist disheartened by the literary industry profiting from the use of Black authors and narratives uses a pen name to craft a story that earns him acclaim while propelling him into hypocrisy.

Date: February 27, 2025

Time: 1:00pm – 4:00pm

Presenter: Kathryn Marshall Woods, PsyD

Where: (Hybrid Event)

The Textile Museum
701 21st St NW, Washington, DC 20052

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Via Zoom

Registration Link: Here

Program Flyer: Here

Registration Deadline: February 25, 2025

Presentation Description:

This presentation will consider how racially crafted stereotypes located in literary and film works have permeated artistic mediums over the last century. Jefferson’s American Fiction depicts an esteemed scholar and novelist frustrated by the narratives published in the literary world that perpetuates racial stereotypes influencing the ways in which people of color are imagined and understood in the world.  Within this presentation, racial stereotypes frequently depicted are examined understanding that their insidious residue exist within quotidian dynamics, including therapy rooms.  This film carefully examines the roles artists and audiences have to uphold racial stereotypes within present day artistic expressions, while challenging one to consider how minority artists have contended with these stereotypes and navigated systems that depict their identity as the other. American Fiction directly confronts these systemically racially charged dynamics while being curious regarding whose voices and narratives are silenced and whose are celebrated.