Some viewers, both Black and white, interpreted the newly minted Oscar winner’s public ponderance as an elitist shot at Black filmmakers or movies about Black people. Others viewed Jefferson’s ...

In his most recent Gawker piece, Cord Jefferson responded to the deluge of right-wing attacks on African-American communities with satire: “White-on-white violence is a menace to white ...

But it’s an experience first-time director Cord Jefferson can now claim after his ... rise of a fellow writer’s success — admits that white people in the Hamptons are going to eat up his ...

The white publishers are on board because they ... Jefferson skewered the entertainment industry for its often shallow focus. Cord Jefferson shooting ‘American Fiction’ He expanded on that ...

Cord Jefferson won at the Oscars on Sunday ... point about the bias for Black narratives that are more palatable for white audiences, he uses an alias to create a stereotypical book that ...

Cord Jefferson wants to tell a quick story ... if the benefactors who helped this slave achieve musical greatness were white, but: gonna go out on a limb and say yes.” He smiles as he shrugs.

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“My name is Cord Jefferson and I’m the writer and director ... Black civil rights activist overcoming white racism, inner-city gangland stuff, poverty and broken homes. I’ll tell you a ...

Cord Jefferson’s “American Fiction” is a ... pitches rushing the book’s publication for Juneteenth. “White people will be feeling — let’s be honest — a little conscience stricken ...

Major: {{https://www.wm.edu/majorsminors/sociology/index.php, Sociology}} As a biracial youth who grew up in a mostly white suburb of Tucson, Arizona, Cord Jefferson ...