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- Title
“I Am Who I Am”: Black Masculinity and the Interpretation of Individualism in the Film Barbershop.
- Authors
Brown, TimothyJ.
- Abstract
This essay will provide further insight into how Black audiences interpret a popular culture text by focusing upon how a group of young black men construct Black masculinity as depicted in the film Barbershop. Interestingly, a rhetorical community of young Black men discussed the representations of the characters in the film from a perspective of Black individualism rather than reaffirming identity through a collective orientation toward the culture. This reading contrasts with much of the “ghettocentric” film literature by highlighting how a Black audience's interpretation of a text can focus on individualism rather than on cultural representations and stereotypes.
- Subjects
ESSAYS; POPULAR culture; RACIAL identity of African Americans; MASCULINITY; BARBERSHOP (Film); INDIVIDUALISM
- Publication
Qualitative Research Reports in Communication, 2008, Vol 9, Issue 1, p46
- ISSN
1745-9435
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1080/17459430802400357