Blog Post #5 - Espiritu's Asian American masculinity

After reading this section on Asian American masculinity the theory of race being a factor of how masculinity is proved or viewed is being enforced. Stereotypically Asian men are viewed as weak, fragile, and woman like. They seem to have all the "feminine" jobs in America. Jobs like working at nail salons, laundromats, cooking in a restaurant, and or doing hair. In their culture woman may sometimes have power over them because men are not always the head of the household but that doesn't mean they are less manly. When Espiritu starts talking about the internment camps it made me think that Asians sometimes have no choice but to let their manhood be torn away from them. Not only were their processions taken away but their rights were taken away too. The family didn't have to respect of look up to the man of the family because he could no longer take care of the family due to the government taking everything away including their dignity. Overall this reading gave us a bit of information of the stereotypes and how Asian men really are.