Jacqueline Pinkowitz

Jacqueline Pinkowitz is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Film Studies at St. Lawrence University, and an affiliated faculty member with African American Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies. Her research and teaching encompass African American film and media; intersectional representations of blackness, whiteness, and racial mixing; southern imaginaries and histories; exploitation and genre film; and American film histories. Her scholarship appears or is forthcoming in the Journal of Popular Film & Television, The Journal of Popular Culture, The Global South, and several edited collections and digital platforms. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Screening Civil Rights: Race, Region, and the American Film Industry during the Black Freedom Struggle (1955-1975).

Commentary, no. 2, vol. 6April 12, 2021<April 29, 2021

“It’s not your loss. It’s San Francisco’s”: Black Movement, Displacement, Home/lessness, and Gentrification in The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)

Joe Talbot’s The Last Black Man in San Francisco is an elegy to the displacement of minority communities from the gentrifying city. Jacqueline Pinkowitz discusses the film’s images of movement, dislocation, and loss and the legacy of racial inequality in the Bay Area.