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.

Final draft of Photo Analysis

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Who's the man?

        Reading my old posts made me see that the man in "The Male Myth" and the one in "The Black Male: Searching Beyond Stereotypes" are equally being a man. They are both described as violent, not expressing how they feel, and stupid. These are characteristics listed in both readings in how men are viewed in society. In that way it's similar but the definition of being masculine kind of changes depending on your race. Personally, I think that they both have a negative picture of masculinity or being a male. They only put down the negative traits of a man and the stereotypes of being male.


Works Cited :
Marable, Manning. "The Black Male : Searching Beyond Stereotypes". Men's Lives. 5ed. Michael S. Kimmel and Michael A. Messner Ed. New York : Allyn and Bacon, 2001. pgs 17-23. Print.

Theroux, Paul. "The Male Myth". Across Cultures: A Reader for Writers. 7th ed. Sheena Gillespie and Robert Becker Ed. New York : Pearson Longman, 2008. p 101-105. Print.