
Portrayals of Black Masculinity in Paid in Full
How do the film's varying portrayals of Black masculinity fuel the idolization of each of the three main characters?
Sitting on an airplane, suspended somewhere over the gulf of Mexico, I stared numbly at the shapes and shadows flitting over the eight-inch screen in front of me —one I had thoroughly disinfected with a Wet One®. I wondered, was …