Masculinity and Racial Minority Stereotypes

As with any culture, there are men who make up various minority groups. These groups often have negative stereotypes - particularly involving masculinity. Common stereotypes of minority men include the following:

Asian Men
-Hypersexual or asexual
-Unattractive
-Good at martial arts
-Fighters
-Skinny
-Businessmen or work in women's professions (nail salons, dry cleaners, etc.)
-Incapable of parenting
-Delicate

Hispanic
-Physically weak
-Greasy and dirty
-Hypersexual ('Latin lover', large families, etc.)
-Gangsters (tattoos, low riders, etc.)
-Live in the ghetto
-Only perform manual labor
-Illegal

Black
-Lazy
-Like being with white women
-Large sex organs
-Good athletes
-Good dancers
-Hypersexual
-Had jail time
-5 D's (dumb, deviant, deprived, dangers and disturbed)

Throughout this project I read numerous articles about male stereotypes among the minorities. Everything from Japanese men who were captured in America during the World War being made to perform housework and sex acts as women did, to hip hop stereotypes of men in India. Because culture is constantly evolving, stereotypes and standards for men are evolving as well. America has its current standard for men to uphold if they wish to be viewed as masculine. What is prevalent in the United States my differ dramatically from the standard in China, Australia or Chile. Understanding masculine stereotypes helps to reconstruct a healthy masculine norm for men of today.

The pictures shown above were taken from a blog that explores racism and social justice: 

http://dante-andthelobster.blogspot.com/2010/11/racism-bad-gender-essentialism-good.html