---
title: "The future of the country"
date: 2017-07-13
last_modified: 2025-01-04T17:11:47+01:00
generated_at: 2026-04-22T05:20:25Z
url: "https://www.schirn.de/en/schirnmag/film-im-not-your-negro-james-baldwin-raoul-peck-2017-magnolia-pictures-context-en/"
description: "As the “chronicler of America’s madness”, Peter Saul addresses the American civil rights movement in his images. With the film “I Am Not Your Negro”, director Raoul Peck now tells the story of racism in the second half of the 20th century."
image: "https://www.schirn.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Header_Film_Im_Not_Your_Negro_James_Baldwin_Raoul_Peck_2017_Magnolia_Pictures.jpg"
language: "en-US"
---

# The future of the country