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Award-winning filmmaker Byron Hurt explores what it means to be a black man in America. Traveling to more than fifteen cities and towns across the country, Hurt gathers reflections on black masculinity from men and women of a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds and a host of leading scholars and cultural critics. What results is an engaging and honest dialogue about race, gender, and identity in America. Features bell hooks, Michael Eric Dyson, John Henrick Clarke, Kevin Powell, Andrew Young, Dr. Alvin Poussaint, MC Hammer, Jackson Katz, and many others.

Sections: Introduction | Images | The Cool Pose | Emotions | Black Male Homosexuality | Black Males: Violence and Fears | Sexism: Men's Violence Against Women | Fathers | The Future

Duration: 60 min
ISBN: 1-932869-10-7
Date Produced: 1998
Subtitles: English

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Filmmaker Info
Director: Byron Hurt
Producers & Writers: Byron Hurt, Andrew P. Jones
Off-Line Editors: Andrew P. Jones, Donald Hastie
On-Line Editors: Lionel Jardine, Donald Hastie
Videography: Byron Hurt, Andrew P. Jones
Additional Videography: Bill Desjardins
Original Music by: Michael Gaskins, Andrew P. Jones

Filmmaker's Bio
BYRON HURT | Director
Central Islip, NY native Byron Hurt is a filmmaker, gender violence prevention worker, and former star college quarterback. He has a diverse background in the media, with work experience in broadcast television, print, public relations, and long-form documentary. He was a production assistant for Stanley Nelson's American Experience PBS documentary, Marcus Garvey: Look For Me in the Whirlwind and is the producer of the "underground classic" award-winning documentary film, I Am A Man: Black Masculinity in America. Hurt is also the associate director of Mentors in Violence Prevention-Marine Corps (MVP-MC), the first system-wide gender violence prevention program in the history of the United States military. Hurt has lectured and facilitated workshops at colleges and universities nationwide including the University of Kentucky, Southern Oregon University, Washington State University, UMass-Amherst, St. John's University, Loyola Marymount-Los Angeles, University of North Carolina, and the University of Nebraska. Visit his website at www.bhurt.com.

Awards
International Prized Pieces Community Choice Award