The Latin American Family: Familism vs. Machismo

Ingoldsby, Bron B.

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“…Families are characterized as dominated by males [Sorenson and Telles, 1991], who have traditionally held the dominant position in the home and community. This may lead toward an oversimplified and often inaccurate machismo, a concept that embodies the idea of male authority and includes a high degree of aggressiveness and tolerance for aggression [Ingoldsby, 1991;Ramirez, 1967]. For this purpose, two different self-reported aggression inventories, developed for application in the Anglo-Saxon culture, were applied to Spanish and Japanese populations.…”

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Cultural and sex differences in aggression: A comparison between Japanese and Spanish students using two different inventories

Ramírez

Andreu

Fujihara

2001

Aggressive Behavior

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Two self-report inventories developed to assess different dimensions of aggression, the Aggression Questionnaire and the EXPAGG, were administered to a sample (N = 400) of men and women undergraduates in two Japanese and Spanish universities. The factor structure of scales was assessed using exploratory factor analysis. Both questionnaires showed high correlations between their respective scales. In both cultures, males reported more physical aggression, verbal aggression, and hostility as well as higher instrumental beliefs, whereas females reported more expressive representation than males. Japanese students reported more physical aggression than their Spanish counterparts, who reported more verbal aggression, hostility, and anger and more expressive representation of aggression. Aggr. Behav. 27:313-322, 2001.

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Cultural and sex differences in aggression: A comparison between Japanese and Spanish students using two different inventories

Ramírez

Andreu

Fujihara

2001

Aggressive Behavior

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“…The present study looked at self-reported aggressive experiences of male and female Southwestern Anglos and Hispanics. Possible interactions between ethnicity and gender were of particular interest, since the meaning of male and female aggressiveness is known to vary across cultures (Burbank, 1994;Fry & Gabriel, 1994;Hines & Fry, 1994) and since the concept of machismo implies aggressiveness for Hispanic males (Becerra, 1988;Ingoldsby, 1991). However, because of the small amount of comparative research with Southwestern Hispanics, no specific predictions about ethnic differences or interactions with ethnicity were made.…”

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Aggressive Experiences and Aggressiveness: Relationship to Ethnicity, Gender, and Age¹

Harris

1996

J Applied Social Pyschol

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This study assessed the relationship of experiences as a target and an instigator of aggression to ethnicity, gender, age, and scores on the Buss‐Perry Aggression Questionnaire in a sample of 363 university students. Anglos reported experiencing more aggression in their lifetime than Hispanics as both target and aggressor, but there were no interactions between ethnicity and gender. Males had experienced more aggression than females both over a lifetime and in the last month; they also scored significantly higher on scales of physical and verbal aggression. Respondent age was negatively correlated with experiences of aggression in the last month and with aggression questionnaire scale scores. The results are consistent with a social learning account of aggression as influenced by both individual experiences and culture.

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“…Regardless of the form of masculinity with which Latinos identify, familism is a significant factor in men's experiences. Familism refers to the centrality of and loyalty to the family and to the prioritizing of family unity and needs over individual members's interests and needs (Ingoldsby 57–58). Latin Americans of different nationalities in the United States share similar attitudes of loyalty toward the family, and these attitudes of loyalty are not initially weakened by migration (Sabogal et al.…”

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What It Means to be a Man?: Violence and Homophobia in Latino Masculinities On and Off Screen

Alcalde¹

2014

The J of Popular Culture

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R ESEARCH ON LATINO MASCULINITIES IS SCANT AND ONLY RARELY results in full-length monographs (Cant u; Mirand e). Recent scholarship underscores multiple ways of being a man in Latin America and among Latinos in the United States. It emphasizes variation in Latino masculinities across regions, ethnic groups, social classes, and time periods (Gonzalez-Lopez; Gutmann; and Mirand e).On screen, however, not only are Latinos underrepresented, but the dominant masculinity associated with Latinos continues to be fairly one-sided and stereotypical: the oversexualized Latin Lover, the lazy crook, and the violent macho. Of particular concern for the purposes of this article is the aggressive, homophobic macho that represents Latinos on screen. Recent work by Latino filmmakers and actors has begun to portray more realistic, multidimensional men, yet the stereotypical fundamentally violent macho persists and dominates portrayals of Latinos.This article draws on recent scholarship on Latino masculinities and violence and on the recent film La Mission (directed by Peter Bratt), a film that seeks to provide a counterstory to stereotypical on-screen depictions of Latinos in the United States, to examine the construction of hegemonic Latino masculinity and violence in the representation of Latino masculinity. I begin by providing background information on Latinos in the United States (and more specifically in California, where the film is set), Latino masculinities, and the history of on-screen Latino representation. I then move on to

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Cultural and sex differences in aggression: A comparison between Japanese and Spanish students using two different inventories

Cultural and sex differences in aggression: A comparison between Japanese and Spanish students using two different inventories

Aggressive Experiences and Aggressiveness: Relationship to Ethnicity, Gender, and Age¹

What It Means to be a Man?: Violence and Homophobia in Latino Masculinities On and Off Screen

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Cultural and sex differences in aggression: A comparison between Japanese and Spanish students using two different inventories

Cultural and sex differences in aggression: A comparison between Japanese and Spanish students using two different inventories

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