Assignment Number 10 Discussion/Writing Assignment Kilmartin Chapter 5 continued (107-116) Jordan Chapter 5. Howard Law School (108-125)

Student Name _____________________ Date due: 2-28-08 Psychology of Men 270 Hal S. Bertilson, Ph.D.

If this paper is late and you believe it may qualify as an excused absence please explain. You must also discuss the questions with someone. If the discussion were completed outside of class, please indicate who you discussed the question with and what their reactions were.

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Late papers. Unexcused late papers may be turned in for one-half credit for the written portion of the assignment.

Spacing. Papers must be typed, double spaced.

8-1/2 X 11 paper. In order to make handling papers easy and to ensure that none are misplaced, all papers are expected to be 8-1/2 X 11 inches, stapled, and with no torn, spiral notebook edges.

Please staple the questions to your answers or write out the questions as well as the answers. Having the questions available in the small group will facilitate discussion.

1.	The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund did dry runs of their Supreme Court arguments at Howard. Vernon Jordan went to everyone one he could and sat in rapt attention as the lawyers prepared to argue cases that would determine the course of their lives. Describe a similar way you or someone you know or someone in the media prepared themselves for their goals in life. (J 111)
2.	In one sermon Vernon Jordan heard, Dr. Evans Crawford spoke of how every individual should create his or her own tensions in life. What did he mean? Why is that important? Describe an example from you personal experience or from someone you know or from the media. (J 113)
3.	Why are ethnic identity and acculturation not opposite ends of the same continuum? Explain. (K 107)
4.	Describe how the review of Latino men illustrated considerations of race as usually intertwined with socioeconomic class issues. Explain. (K 108-109)
5.	What are the conflicting conceptualizations about the meaning of machismo? What may be behind these meanings? (K 109)
6.	Why must any description of African-American men be imbedded in the context of historical slavery? What is meant by the cycle of poverty and powerlessness? What is the cool pose? What function does the cool pose serve? (K 109)
7.	What effect does poverty have on the behaviors of men? What other sources of power do low-income men sometimes turn to? What is central to the social definitions of masculinity? What is your reaction to this section? (K 115-116)