- 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
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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