Authour: JOY L. LEI
~ Vassar College
Brock Students Access:http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.proxy.library.brocku.ca/doi/10.1525/aeq.2003.34.2.158/pdf
In this journal article the authour discuses the identities inflicted on students within a school and classroom.
Loud Black Girls
Quote from Text :
"In addition to the image of being "large and loud," the black female students were also characterized as aggressive and having a lot of "attitude." For example, teachers and students described (and I observed numerous times) how some black female students would stand as a group in the hallway between and sometimes during classes, talking to each other loudly and blocking the hallway. Students and teachers found it difficult and frustrating to walk past the black female students"
"In addition to the image of being "large and loud," the black female students were also characterized as aggressive and having a lot of "attitude." For example, teachers and students described (and I observed numerous times) how some black female students would stand as a group in the hallway between and sometimes during classes, talking to each other loudly and blocking the hallway. Students and teachers found it difficult and frustrating to walk past the black female students"
Examples:
For a 'young black girl', she has expectations and roles to adhire;
- Perform femininity (dress, speak, walk, talk, and respond a certain way)
- Stereotypes based on her race & gender
- Constantly socialize
Her expected roles also change depending on where she is.
ENVIRONMENT
- Home
- School
- Office
- With peers
"Quiet Asian Boys"
Labeled quiet and mysterious..
the Asian boys were up to something..
maybe..eventually.. <assumed>> Stereotype the unnecessary toughness the article discussed connected the mysteriousness to the Asian boys getting involved in gangs to prove their masculinity.
The authour states that the "quietness of the Southeast Asian American male students made them unnoticeable, almost invisible."
Quote in text from Student: "I don't pay no attention to the Asian boys, I really don't. But I do pay attention to the Asian girls, you know? 'Cuz they do show themselves more or they talk more, you just see them more I guess [Asian boys] just been stereotyped in different ways since they... seem like they look at it as they don't count."
Reference - Lei, Joy L. (2003) “(Un)Necessary Toughness? Those ‘Loud Black Girls’ and Those ‘Quiet Asian Boys’ Anthropology and Education Quarterly 34(2) pp. 158-181.
Expectation of Boys + Adding Race
- Strong
- Independent
- Independent
- Smart
- Intelligent
- Intelligent
"What Asians are know for "
Your race is a discourse to your gender performance.
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