Black Family: I Am A Man 56:46 mins
Produced by Byron Hurt
Price: $3.99
"I Am A Man" 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. This film features cultural critics bell hooks and Michael Eric Dyson; the late historian John Henrick Clarke; hip-hop writer, author and activist Kevin Powell; human rights activist and former mayor of Atlanta, Andrew Young; renown psychiatrist Dr. Alvin Poussaint; entertainer MC Hammer, and several African-American men and women from across the country. "I Am A Man" won the International Prized Pieces Community Choice Award and has been shown at more than 80 colleges and universities across the country.
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This video is timely and informative. I would recommend folk of all races to see this so that some discussion of the issue can be had in a deep way. The negative notions and construction of black masculinity must be challenged and dismantled.
Posted by Ravenelvenlady | Dec 31 2007 at 07:30 am