Male Representation

I know I've already talked about "The Best Man Holiday" but it is a really good movie and it's the most recent black film that I have seen. I agree with Valerie. The three topics that all three authors agreed on when it came to how African Americans were represented were masculinity, heterasexuality, and patriarchy. I'm going to use one male character from the movie, Lance. Lance holds all of these characteristics. He shows his heterasexuality by being with a woman, his wife Mia. As Mia is dying, Lance steps up in his patriarchy way. He knows that he has to be an even better father than he was before now that Mia is going away. He also shows his masculinity numerous times in the movie by overpowering many people and often referring to what he has to do as being a "mans job."