Saturday, April 23, 2011

blog-07

Zinn's reading, is talking about that Chicano men are considered by ' Macho Men', which they controlled everything from the house and their families. So basically they controlled everything around them and it became for advanced for everyone. Also the Chicano fathers considered being more important with their children and also to give them positive influences in their child. In the country, Puerto Rico, Cuban, Mexican American and etc. have the urge to have the stress dominance, aggressiveness,, physical powers and other masculine traits. In pg. 28, I see that, " Davidson and Gordon suggest the following social conditions affect the development of gender roles in ethnic groups : one: the position of the group in the stratification, two: the existence of an ethnic community, and three: the degree of self identification with the minority group. Also Chicanos are overly strong with sex typed in terms of masculine identity.

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

blog-05

The reading "All Men Are Not Created Equal: Asian Men in U.S. History' by Yen Le Espiritu , is basically saying that Asian men did everything instead of the woman which the Asian men had to support the family but the men had to cook for the family or the women would also. When WW2 started they had to put the Asian men on concentrated camps and which it was nearly thousand of people which the most were the men and half the women. The Asian men were considered to the laundry, domestic service and food preparation which they called them as "feminized". So the men considered to do everything for the family instead the mom to support them which they called men as females.

Friday, April 1, 2011

Who's the Man?

The article, "The Male Myth" by Paul Theroux and "The Black Male: Searching Beyond Stereotypes" by Manning Marable. They are equally masculine but Paul's reaction to his writing is saying that men are not masculine enough to play sports and do other things that are known for. In Manning's writing is saying that back then men had to work everyday to support their family but then black and white men were segarated and didnt get along. Both articles has somewhat compare aand contrasts because in Paul's writing he thought that men was worthless and couldnt do nothing in life which its not true because men has the ablitiy to be strong and intellectual and they are masculine enough to do anything. In Manning's writing is saying alot of masculine because back then men worked so hard and everyday to support each other and they were the first ones to give them the right to vote. Evern though they though that black males were rapists and as for black women they thought white men also were rapists which is was equally.