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I Am A Man: Black Masculinity in America

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Uploaded by on Oct 30, 2006

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A film by Byron Hurt.

This award-winning documentary links everyday black men from various socioeconomic backgrounds with some of Black America's most progressive academics, social critics and authors to provide an engaging, candid dialogue on black masculine identity in American culture. Featuring interviews with bell hooks, Michael Eric Dyson, John Henrick Clarke, Dr. Alvin Poussaint, MC Hammer, and others.

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  • The black community of current is such to where intellectualism is almost as dangerous as homosexuality, both usually have to be concealed or at least masked well amoungst a smokescreen. So for a black person to come out of the hood as an intellectual would mean that a great evolutionary anomoly has occurred.

  • The cult of masculinity is equally problematic across all groups of humans. It is only culture and media that attributes the "best" and "worst" of this cult from race to race. the ideal of masculinity is the problem. I grew up in a small redneck town. I cant imagine the label "faggot" as being worse in an urban black town as it was where I grew up. The cult of masculinity plagues all groups of humans.

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  • Bell hooks does not even like black men. She should be the last person on anything concerning this subject. She makes everything about females. Even when talking about men.

  • Wow... Im hella late coming across this documentary... I need to check it out. This will probably explain why its so many faggots runnin around the black community these days. Smh...

  • The part where the two men are shown kissing is not "being a man."

  • @VredesStal: You do realise that the "fellow Africans" were actually separate, self contained tribes who moved for their own purposes in thier own directions? I see your point. I really do. But certain white people (such as yourself) really do need to stop pushing that tired old "you sold each other out" statement as there was just a big cluster of random black people living communally on a big, continent-sized, patch of land.

  • look at all these idiots whining about bigotry and then as soon as two men are shown kissing they show their hypocrisy

  • @edavis5190 and fuckers like you are always emasculating masculine gays

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