Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Blog # 6 - Venn Diagram

Marable's Black Masculinity 
  • Resentment was felt towards black women because they blame them for not being supportive to their pain.
  • Black families were lead by the woman instead of the man,making this a matriarchy state of family
  • Black men were punished with crualty measures such as castration or liching.
  • Black men were perpetuated as "beast"
  • Black men were segregated from everybody else including their own families, making children growing up without parents
  • Black men are usually misunderstood by society because they are always related to drugs and misbehavior or criminal history.
Espiritu's Asian Masculinity
  • Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps after the bombing of  Pearl Harbor
  • Asian men were consider homosexual or asexual because spend too much time between males due to the lack of Asian women
  • Asian men were used as servents to the white people, especially to take care of feminine chores such as iron cloths, cleaning the house or cooking
  • Asian men usually turned violent towars their families because they felt inferior with white people
  • Asian men lost their power over families when immigrated to U.S
  • Asian men were usually look as feminine
Similarities
  • They both physically abused their families because their fustration towards white people
  • They both lost respect from their children and wives
  • They both were treated as animals by white men

1 comment:

  1. Your Venn diagram or lists of similarities and differences illustrate various connections between the readings. I hope you completed this exercise when you were composing the revision of your midterm? You need to hand in the original midterm in order for me to assign your revision a grade.

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