Contact information
Name:
Julie Katz
Phone:
610-330-5593
Email:
katzju@lafayette.edu
When:
Thursday, October 29, 2026 - 4:15pm - 5:30pm
Where:
OCGE 107
Price:
Free
Where Do Black Men Live is a powerful fictional dramatization inspired by the 1994 documentary by director Lee Mun Wah, The Color of Fear. Written by Gift Tapiwa, Joy Wrolson, and Stephanie Guirand, the film uses a verbatim theatre style—meaning the script is composed directly from the real words of Black men interviewed about their housing experiences. The film imagines eight of these men in conversation, seated in a circle, sharing their stories with one another. What unfolds is a deeply moving exploration of the challenges and triumphs they’ve faced in finding and keeping home.
Directed by Corinne Spencer and co-directed by Gift Tapiwa Marovatsanga and Joy Wrolson, the film is based on 25 ethnographic interviews—a less intrusive and artificial approach to research—conducted between May 2021 and November 2022 by Stephanie Guirand.
Sponsored by:
Africana Studies Program and Anthropology and Sociology