Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

---

Black History Month Lecture:
From black squares to full circles: Did the 2020 scramble for Black writers make a difference? by Patrice Lawrence, writer and journalist

Chaired by Professor Judith Rankin, Dean of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

The 2023 film American Fiction probably garnered the longest, loudest laughs from Black writers. Based on the book Erasure by Percy Everett, it tells the tale of a disenchanted African-American literary writer who inadvertently writes a bestseller incorporating every conceivable African-American stereotype. Could this happen here?

-----------------------------------------------------------

Thank you for watching.

Subscribe to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/c/INSIGHTSPublicLecturesNCL
Follow INSIGHTS Public Lectures on Twitter: twitter.com/InsightsNCL
Visit the INSIGHTS Public Lectures Website: ncl.ac.uk/events/public-lectures