Blog post #6

• Marables black masculinity
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• Men had to perform hard physical labor 
• Men were not able to interact with their wives or family 
• Resentment was felt towards African american women
• Black men were punished by their white masters with castration, lynching, whipping and more
• Black men were regarded as physically superior to the white man, but were intellectually inferior to the white people.
• considered "a beast of burden" but tollerated and controlled.
• Were sexual lusts by the woman angered the white men.
• black men were leaned on by there masters to protect them in time of war.
• Families were separated when sold in slavery auctions
• women helped to get black mens rights.

• Espiritu's asian masculinity 
• Common stereotypes are that Asian men are homosexual
• Feminine because they had to take over women's jobs.
• Asian men were constructed to be less successful, attractive and desirable than their female counterparts
• Asian men were isolated from society, so they were unable to develop  the English language
• Men worked in laundromats, food and domestic service
• Asian men were house servants to white people
• Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps during ww2, they had all there property taken from them.
• while in the camps the fathers lost there control over there families, the children also became americanized and they lost a portion of there culture.
• Considered to have above average intelligence
• felt useless and frustrated when they lost their businesses.
• Asian men were not liked in the U.S., especially after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
• Women were hired more often at factories and sweatshops, making the female the breadwinner for the entire family,
• had to deal with these jobs they felt were beneath them because thats all the work that was offered to them when they were brought to america

Similarities

• both were mentally beaten down by the white man to show they were superior.
• Were subservients to the whites.
• the woman were sexual lusts 
• Both went through harsh treatment,  blacks with slavery and Asians with there jobs and loss of power over there family
• Lost parts of there culture