Darius James (aka Dr. Snakeskin, born 1954) is an African-American author and performance artist.
He is the author of ''That's Blaxploitation: Roots of the Baadasssss 'Tude (Rated X by an All-Whyte Jury)'',
an unorthodox, semi-autobiographical history of the
blaxploitation
In American cinema, Blaxploitation is the film subgenre of action movie derived from the exploitation film genre in the early 1970s, consequent to the combined cultural momentum of the black civil rights movement, the black power movement, ...
film genre, and ''
Negrophobia: An Urban Parable'', a satirical novel written in screenplay form.
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His work is influenced by the Voodoo religion. James lives in ]Hamden, Connecticut
Hamden is a New England town, town in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. The town's nickname is "The Land of the Sleeping Giant (Connecticut), Sleeping Giant". The town is part of the South Central Connecticut Planning Region, Connecti ...
.
He appeared in the 2006 film '' Black Deutschland'' (James had lived in Berlin). He co-wrote and appeared in a feature-length film released in 2013, ''The United States of Hoodoo''.
Books
* ''That's Blaxploitation: Roots of the Baadasssss 'Tude (Rated X by an All'Whyte Jury)''
* ''Negrophobia: An Urban Parable''
* ''Voodoo Stew'' (German/English), Verbrecher Verlag Berlin, 2004
* ''Froggie Chocolate's Christmas Eve / Froggie Chocolates Weihnachtsabend'' (German/English), Verbrecher Verlag Berlin, 2005
See also
* Closet screenplay
References
External links
*
Darius James "Super-Thug" History Lesson
1954 births
Living people
African-American novelists
American male novelists
20th-century American novelists
20th-century American male writers
20th-century American non-fiction writers
American male non-fiction writers
20th-century African-American writers
21st-century African-American writers
African-American male writers
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