Darius James (aka Dr. Snakeskin, born 1954) is an African-American author and performance artist. He is the author of That's Blaxploitation: Roots of the Baadasssss 'Tude (Rated X by an All-Whyte Jury), 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.
His work of collaborative fiction, Blasphemy and Other Ancestors, with Padgett Powell, Jean Marc Ah-Sen, and Lee Henderson was published by Gordon Hill Press in Spring 2024.
