Episode 4 | Into the Messiness: Black Identity and Horror in Sinners Dr.Christopher S. Chambers

Sinners has no single vision of what it means to be Black. One character practices hoodoo. Another is devoted to the church. Two others become vampires. Sociologist Dr. Christopher S. Chambers argues this is exactly right — and exactly why horror is the genre that can hold it. In this episode, he unpacks how the film refuses to flatten Black identity into one story, and why that refusal is itself a political act. A conversation for anyone who has ever felt like their own version of Blackness didn't fit the available options. This episode is hosted by Dr. Brittney Frantece, Thurgood Marshall Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of African and African American Studies, Dartmouth College, and is produced by the Dartmouth Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life in collaboration with the Dartmouth Media Production Group.