Black Masculinity In Black Ain T

In Black is… Black Ain’t, the main character use this film to address issues of race, sexuality, racism, and tradition, while dealing with his own personal issue of having AIDS. Many prominent figures in the black community in the past and today have been known to address the matters of other no matter what they have going on personally. In the film, black tradition and black masculinity are two themes that stood out to me the most. Tradition and masculinity were two things in targeting the blacks that were brought over during the slavery time period, which were known to make our ancestors weak.
Big Mama, old men playing checkers, castor iron skillets, and well-seasoned food remind me of growing up back home in the south. When my big mama was in the kitchen you could smell the aroma of the food all throughout the house, this is what black is. I did not get that same feeling when I would visit friends’ homes for dinner that were not black, maybe because of our different culture and traditions in the kitchen. Watching older male figures in my life play checkers down the street with Pop Scandret and others was what I was accustomed to going over my big mamas’ house. That environment is part of what shaped me into the person I
When I picture black masculinity, it’s a man expressing whom he is, i.e. the dancer in the film, something that was taken away in the past. It is a man supporting his family, something that was also taken away in the past. I did not see much of a male figure in the film when Marlon would talk about him family; he talked about his mom and big mama. My father wasn’t there in my early stages of my life, but my god father was my father figure, it seems in many black families at times the mother is the person that deals with the children the most, but that’s not in all