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In five pages this paper contrasts and compares African-American and Latino masculinities, how they are presented and represented, and how gender is understood in these films. Four sources are cited in the bibliography.
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man based upon societal and cultural expectations. Masculinity is, therefore, not instinctive, but rather a social construct that is perpetuated through conditioning. The great American "melting pot" experiment
never completely succeeded, and within the predominantly Anglo culture, several ethnic subcultures emerged when immigrants brought the traditions that defined them to the United States. For Blacks and Latinos,
their concept of masculinity is determined in large part by their distinctive subcultures, which connect them to their African and Hispanic roots. In the twenty-first century, a growing number
of filmmakers have contemplated the presentation and representation of gender within these tightly knit regional communities. Director and screenwriter Gary Hardwick dubbed his 2001 film The Brothers as "Refusing
to Exhale," a thinly-veiled reference to the 1995 African-American chick flick entitled Waiting to Exhale ("Hollywoods Leading Black Men Tackle Love, Sex and Friendship in Film The Brothers" 59).
It is the story of four Black yuppie friends or "brothers" - Jackson Smith (Morris Chestnut), Derrick West (D. L. Hughley), Brian Palmer (Bill Bellamy), and Terry White (Shemar Moore)
- and considers how their views and their actions reflect their masculinity. Furthermore, it explores how masculinity affects their perceptions of women and their relationships with them. Director
and screenwriter Peter Bratt aimed his lens at San Franciscos primarily Latino Mission district in his aptly titled 2009 independent release, La Mission. Here, the focus is machismo, or
the particularly aggressive presentation of masculinity, and how widower and recovering alcoholic Che Rivera (Benjamin Bratt) hopes to pass this along to his son Jes (Jeremy Ray Valdez). In The
Brothers, it becomes quite evident that Black masculinity has predominantly heterosexist and metrosexual characteristics. Jackson, who is seeking therapy to address his commitment phobia, is asked by his therapist
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