Reading Assignment: Your reply (under Comments) is due before class on Wednesday, February 1. Remember, you don’t need to answer all or even any of the questions, but your response should demonstrate you’ve done and thought about the readings. Be …
Monthly Archives: January 2012
The story about the “Stolen sidekick” concerning Sasha Gomez and Evan Guttman was a moral fight for Evan. Evan’s friend was the owner of a sidekick phone and she happened to leave it in a taxi by accident. After Evan’s …
Both Jeanette Rodriguez in a section of her book, Our Lady of Guadalupe: Faith and Empowerment among Mexican-American Women, and Gloria Anzaldúa in Borderlands/ La Frontera: The New Mestiza speak to the construction of machismo. For a long time …
Lorna Dee Cervantes is known as one of the greatest poets in Chicana literature. She was born on August 6, 1954 in San Francisco, California. Her parents came from Mexican and Native American descent. When she was young, her parents …
Twitter thoughts discussing Maylei Blackwell, Chapter Two ¡Chicana Power! (43-90)
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Reading Assignment: Your reply (under Comments) is due before class on Monday, January 30. Remember, you don’t need to answer all or even any of the questions, but your response should demonstrate you’ve done and thought about the readings. Be …
Twitter thoughts discussing Anna NietoGomez, “Chicana Print Culture and Chicana Studies: A Testimony to the Development of Chicana Feminist Culture” (from A Critical Reader: Chicana Feminisms, 90-96)
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In Chicana Feminist Thought, “A Chicana’s Message,” “El Movimiento and the Chicana,” and “Viva La Chicana and All Brave Women of La Causa” there’s an overwhelming sentiment from Chicana women that they did not feel fully supported by their …
Reading Assignment: Your reply (under Comments) is due before class on Friday, January 27. Remember, you don’t need to answer all or even any of the questions, but your response should demonstrate you’ve done and thought about the readings. Be …
Today we’re continuing our discussion of Maylei Blackwell’s book, ¡Chicana Power!: Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement. Here are some class tweets based on readings of Chapter 1:
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