Interesting: When people think of blacks, they think of men; of Asians, they think of women
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Previous research from the perspective of gendered race theory has demonstrated that stereotypes about race often contain a gendered component, whereby certain racial and ethnic groups are stereotyped as more masculine or feminine. In particular, in North American contexts, Blacks tend to be associated with masculinity, while Asians tend to be associated with femininity. In this paper we present the hypothesis that Asian men and Black women are deemed less prototypical of their overarching racial groups due to the mismatch between their identities and gendered race stereotypes. First, we show evidence demonstrating that Asian men face invisibility at the cognitive level, consistent with previous theory and research related to Black women (Study 1). Second, we present direct evidence that participants are more likely to imagine a man when thinking of a Black individual and less likely to think of a man when imagining an Asian individual, relative to the frequency of Whites (Study 2). Overall, our results support the hypothesis that Asian men and Black women are viewed as less prototypical of their race categories. We discuss implications and future directions for work on intersectionality and gendered race theory.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103114001486
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I don't imagine men bro
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This is little JJ-ish
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I read a similar study that touched on this, a few years ago.
The conceptualization of race is definitely gendered, since the construct of race is designed to categorize phenotypes for an underlying reason. Having a gendered component inbuilt to affect the perception of various races, serve a similar purpose.
FWIW here's the study I'm referring to:
sscnet.ucla.edu/comm/kjohnson/Lab/Publications_files/2011-19326-001.pdf
Moreover, the fact that masculinity is associated with blacks and femininity is associated with Asians, speaks for the influence of the white male's normative perception - even past the surface level the "white gaze" is harmful. Their desire and fetishization of asian women coupled with their inferiority complex and criminalization of black men, is dehumanizing and spill over to affect Asian men and black women as well since they perpetuate their respective stereotypes while discrediting them with the notion that they're undesirable. -
You live in a Era where people define reality regardless if it's true or not based on the individual level. Hence, whites get mad being known as conquerors and slavers.
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Makes sense
Surprised I never noticed this before
What are the implications of this though?
How does this translate to real world effects, in the workplace or elsewhere? -
Oya_Husband wrote: »You live in a Era where people define reality regardless if it's true or not based on the individual level. Hence, whites get mad being known as conquerors and slavers.
conqueror doesnt even sound that bad tho
damn@the study saying asian men face invisibility on a cognitive level, imo strong individuals and especially actors like bruce lee, jackie chan jet li etc.. formed a good image of asian men for the masses
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Oya_Husband wrote: »You live in a Era where people define reality regardless if it's true or not based on the individual level. Hence, whites get mad being known as conquerors and slavers.
conqueror doesnt even sound that bad tho
damn@the study saying asian men face invisibility on a cognitive level, imo strong individuals and especially actors like bruce lee, jackie chan jet li etc.. formed a good image of asian men for the masses
Add Tony Jaa, Donnie Yen, Sonny Chiba, and Ken Watanabe too -
Makes sense
Surprised I never noticed this before
What are the implications of this though?
How does this translate to real world effects, in the workplace or elsewhere?
Poverty levels and ? infection rates among blk women have been ignored for the most part thus the upward trends -
Well, "interesting" might be too strong of a word.
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When I think of this thread, I think of ? .
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Y'all racist as ? ...
What about Bruce Lee? Lol -
Asian , oriental or indo?
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desertrain10 wrote: »Makes sense
Surprised I never noticed this before
What are the implications of this though?
How does this translate to real world effects, in the workplace or elsewhere?
Poverty levels and ? infection rates among blk women have been ignored for the most part thus the upward trends
? infection rates ignored? Nah, only thing they ever report when it comes to ? is Black rates for both men and women. -
Asian , oriental or indo?
What's the difference between Asian and oriental?
Anyway, I don't think they mean South Asians, but Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc. -
Makes sense
Surprised I never noticed this before
What are the implications of this though?
How does this translate to real world effects, in the workplace or elsewhere?
I think that given that blackness is associated with all kinds of bad things, it means that black men get the full brunt of racism, unlike black women. -
Owning hundreds of Kung fu movies I ve noticed that females get the exact same treatment as males
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A Talented One wrote: »Makes sense
Surprised I never noticed this before
What are the implications of this though?
How does this translate to real world effects, in the workplace or elsewhere?
I think that given that blackness is associated with all kinds of bad things, it means that black men get the full brunt of racism, unlike black women.
But Black women are not excluded from the racial group
It would seem that the properties considered "Black" are just considered more masculine
If anything it would seem that comment referring to Serena and Venus as dudes makes more sense how this affects them
Maybe i'm off, but there are areas where Black women can be shown undoubtedly to experience similar discrimination
They do more time than their White counterparts for the same crimes and face some of the same employment problems -
You know, it's interesting how Blackness is so closely associated with masculinity, yet Black Women are fetishized as much if not more than Asian women..
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A Talented One wrote: »Makes sense
Surprised I never noticed this before
What are the implications of this though?
How does this translate to real world effects, in the workplace or elsewhere?
I think that given that blackness is associated with all kinds of bad things, it means that black men get the full brunt of racism, unlike black women.
can you cut this shot the ? out black women are not the enemy -
A Talented One wrote: »Makes sense
Surprised I never noticed this before
What are the implications of this though?
How does this translate to real world effects, in the workplace or elsewhere?
I think that given that blackness is associated with all kinds of bad things, it means that black men get the full brunt of racism, unlike black women.
But Black women are not excluded from the racial group
It would seem that the properties considered "Black" are just considered more masculine
If anything it would seem that comment referring to Serena and Venus as dudes makes more sense how this affects them
Maybe i'm off, but there are areas where Black women can be shown undoubtedly to experience similar discrimination
They do more time than their White counterparts for the same crimes and face some of the same employment problems
Smh. I'm not saying that black women aren't discriminated against/are treated equally to white people. Just that the racism/discrimination they face is not as bad as the racism/discrimination black men face.
And that makes sense. After all, if people have negative attitudes to the black racial group, but when they think of blacks it's black men that they more often think of, that would suggest that black men get the full force of these negative attitudes, but that the same thing cannot be said of black women.
And it's a fact that black women are more acceptable to the mainstream than black men. -
A Talented One wrote: »Makes sense
Surprised I never noticed this before
What are the implications of this though?
How does this translate to real world effects, in the workplace or elsewhere?
I think that given that blackness is associated with all kinds of bad things, it means that black men get the full brunt of racism, unlike black women.
can you cut this shot the ? out black women are not the enemy
Man, how can you interpret that as saying that black women are the enemy?
I don't think black women are the enemy, and nothing I've ever said in criticism of them in other threads was meant to suggest that I think they are the enemy. -
You know, it's interesting how Blackness is so closely associated with masculinity, yet Black Women are fetishized as much if not more than Asian women..
I think Asian women are more fetishized. -
A Talented One wrote: »
Well, maybe fetishized isn't quite synonymous with lusted..
