【摘要】 美国自快速工业化后,男性白人因失去手工业时代的支配地位而对外来移民和少数族群采取仇视的态度,将男性华人视如女性而置之于权力边缘。美国华人可说是在性别分化的机制运作之下,经历了种族歧视。男性华人尝试藉由抗争罢工、司法诉讼等方式争取尊严,这些行动虽然不一定都产生了良好效果,但从中我们可以看到美国华人男性气概的形成过程。本文主要以现存美国本土华人研究的二手资料为基础,以性别为关注点,力图重新给男性华人以不同的定位,从而使美国华人的研究更加完整。更多还原

【Abstract】 Based on the research literature, the essay examines the gender attribute in the history of Chinese Americans. Ever since the rapidly industrialized period in the United States from the 1860s, American white men suffered a crisis of masculinities, which triggered an antagonism toward racial minority like Chinese. The white masculinities tried to establish a hegemony by putting Chinese males into a peripheral status, just like women in the gender equation. Chinese Americans thus experienced racial discrimination in the process of gender manoeuvring. Chinese Americans fought against the mechanism in acts like labor protest, court suits. Although these actions might not improve Chinese American lives all the times, they indicated the Chinese American masculinities in their own ways. Throughout the development, Chinese Americans, while prejudiced by the American society, illustrated their efforts to control their own life.更多还原