Masculinities – Intersectionality and Asian Americans
Discuss the “politics of gender” within the Asian American community. Underlying your discussion is an understanding of a particular instance of intersectionality—the gendered and sexualized form of both the racial oppression of Asian Americans and their resistance to it. Discussion of the gender politics will entail briefly outlining the “feminization” /“emasculation” of Asian American men; and then focusing on the nature of the nationalist reaction to this ‘feminization,” the Asian American feminist critique of this nationalist response, and the gender politics that ensued. In the course of your discussion of gender politics, pay some attention to the concept of privilege and its invisibility to those with it.