BOOK REVIEW | MOVIES | BLACK HISTORY

Stagger Lee and the ‘Erasure’ of Middle-Class African Americans

What better time than Black History Month to talk about Jeffrey Wright’s hit movie ‘American Fiction’ and the very bad nigga at the center of the story.

Andrew Jazprose Hill

Published in

Momentum

6 min readFeb 5, 2024

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Photo of Actor Jeffrey Wright with a concerned look on his face and speaking into a microphone taken by Gage Skidmore via Wikemedia Commons. — Photo of Actor Jeffrey Wright by Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons

Andrew Jazprose Hill

Written by Andrew Jazprose Hill

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Momentum

In the Jazprose Diaries on Substack, I write about Art, Culture, and Race with a mindful memoirist's eye. Come on in. The water's fine.

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