“I didn’t want to encapsulate my existence as very traumatic and downtrodden, like ‘Great Expectations.’ So much of the national dialogue about race deals with either terrible trauma or black excellence. I was more interested in the space in between, because that’s where I exist. So the challenge was finding a space between sensationalizing and also documenting and contextualizing.”
Damon Young’s WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU MAKES YOU BLACKER is in stores this week.
Jogo Corpo Fechado 