Friday, April 8, 2011

Blog # 5 = Yen Le Espiritu "All Men Are Not Created Equal"

In the article "All Men Are Not Created Equal: Asian Men in U.S History" by Yen Le Espiritu presented another story of white men humiliating minority. Asian american  men were treated like criminals after the attacked of Pearl Harbor. This madness reminded me of the Nazis and Jews. Just like the German Nazis treated like animals the Jew, Americans treated the same way Asian americas, but without the killing part. In masculine perspective Asian americas were feminized by the american society. They were pushed to do low class feminine labor such as laudry, cooking, cleaning the house, etc. But are not males all equal ? According to Yen Le Espitu and Manning Marable from "The Black Male:Searching Beyond Stereotype" race plays a big roll defining masculinity.
The Experiences of Asian male domestic service workers demostrate that not all men benefits equally from Pathiarchy. Depending on their race and class, men experience gender differently. While male domination of women may tie all men together, men share unequally in the fruits of this domination(Yen Le Espiritu: Pg 3)
Not being White in this society transforms you into a low life "not human" entity. White discrimination and the fight over power will always keep the minorities oppress and it doen not matter if you are men o women. What it really matters is money and race.

1 comment:

  1. You make an excellent point about how race and class play a role in limiting or denying certain men the access to masculine privileges. Also, the analogy between Nazi and Jews, and Americans and Japanese-Americans is great. Nice job :)
    You state that "Not being White in this society transforms you into a low life "not human" entity." Do you think today there are laws which protect people from being exploited and dehumanized? Please follow the MLA format when quoting. The following sentence:"While male domination of women may tie all men together, men share unequally in the fruits of this domination(Yen Le Espiritu: Pg 3)", are these your words or Espiritus? Please make sure you format the information in parentheses correctly. Page 3? I don't think there is a page three in Espiritu's article.

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