Throughout his piece, Tim’m discusses how he both internalized and resisted various representations of black manhood and in one early point he states, “The images of black men made available through the media and television were either hypermasculine superheroes in Blaxploitation flicks or frustrated ‘boyz in the hood’ whose rage with societal racism frequently got played out in multiple, self-destructive reactions.” (p.70) What was his response to these representations?