Persistently Displaced: Situated Knowledges and Interrelated Histories in The Spook Who Sat by the Door

Removed from theaters shortly after its 1973 release, Ivan Dixon's The Spook Who Sat by the Door's narrative and production history mark the film as a "radical" text. This article analyzes the way in which the film's historical displacement can productively be situated and read against interrelated spatiotemporal moments of Black history and cultural production.