I Am Not Your Negro [the film Raoul Peck directed] organizes excerpts from the 30 pages of Remember This House with other bits and pieces of Baldwin’s letters and notes and interviews to tremendous effect. Peck described his role in its creation as similar to a “librettist crafting the script for an opera from the scattered works of a revered author.”

Baldwin had written in a tiny note that Remember This House should be “a funky dish of chitterlings.” Peck took this concept to heart, combining Baldwin’s words with all manner of other things: still images, film clips, speech excerpts, news footage, song lyrics, a Chiquita banana advertisement — even excerpts from Baldwin’s own FBI file. (Along with noting Baldwin’s homosexuality, the FBI file refers to him as “a dangerous individual who could be expected to commit acts inimical to the national defense and public safety to the United States in times of emergency.”)  Peck illuminates the three civil rights heroes through Baldwin’s memories, but also bears Baldwin’s witnessing to a new generation, a new millennium, almost 40 years after Baldwin first thought of the project. I Am Not Your Negro is an inspiring & disturbing look into all of the things that made Baldwin so pessimistic in the 1980s, & the still divided, still cruel, still unequal America we inhabit today. Following Baldwin’s death, McGraw-Hill sued his estate to recover the $200,000 advance they had paid him for the book, although the lawsuit was dropped by 1990. In February 2017, Vintage International published the book I Am Not Your Negro to accompany the film. I see it offered by  Penguin Classics, 2017 and from Amazon, as a Paperback –both James Baldwin & Raoul Peck listed as authors.