Yvonne Chireau
Professor and scholar of African-derived spiritual traditions who served as a consultant on the film Sinners, providing expertise on hoodoo, conjure practices, and ancestor veneration.
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Feb 11, 2026 • 41min
Sinners Gives Hoodoo Its Due
Kenitra Brooks, scholar of conjure women exploring personal genealogy. Yvonne Chireau, expert on African-derived spiritual traditions who consulted on the film. They discuss hoodoo’s portrayal on screen, co-creating Annie’s practices and movements, ancestral time and music, props and historical choices, and how conjure functions as social power in 1930s Mississippi.
