No matter how multiracial and multicultural our inner-city neighborhoods actually are, they are reduced in most Hollywood movies to an essentialist terrain of black and white male confrontation and resolution...These intimate black and white male partnerships, which exclude women, project the black masculinity imagined by white male liberals in quest of perfect partners.
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