Darius James

{{short description|American novelist}}

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|birth_date={{birth year and age|1954}}

|birth_place=United States

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|genre=Non-fiction

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Darius James (aka Dr. Snakeskin, born 1954) is an African-American author and performance artist.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/17/books/book-notes-312892.html|title=Book Notes|work=The New York Times|first=Esther|last=B. Fein|date=June 17, 1992}} He is the author of That's Blaxploitation: Roots of the Baadasssss 'Tude (Rated X by an All-Whyte Jury),{{cite book |last=James |first=Darius |title=That's Blaxploitation!: Roots of the Baadasssss 'Tude (Rated X by an All-Whyte Jury) |year=1995 |publisher=St. Martin's Press |isbn=0-312-13192-5 }} an unorthodox, semi-autobiographical history of the blaxploitation film genre, and Negrophobia: An Urban Parable, a satirical novel written in screenplay form.

His work is influenced by the Voodoo religion. James lives in Hamden, Connecticut.

He appeared in the 2006 film Black Deutschland (James had lived in Berlin). He co-wrote and appeared in a feature-length film released in 2013, The United States of Hoodoo.{{Cite web |url=http://hoodoo.stokedfilm.com/ |title=Hoodoo.stokedfilm.com |access-date=2013-07-13 |archive-date=2018-12-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181229171711/http://hoodoo.stokedfilm.com/ |url-status=dead }}