Chicas
In Praise of Difficult Chicas: Feminism and Femininity was written by Adriana Lopez. The writer of this piece started off talking about...
Hip Hop
The first writing we covered this week was written by Gwendolyn D. Pough, Love Feminism but Where’s My Hip Hop?: Shaping a Black Feminist...
White Flight Express
The second chapter we read was “What Happens When Your Hood is the Last Stop on the White Flight Express?”. Again this was a very...
Colonize This!
First I want to start off by saying this book is amazing. While reading these chapters I felt like I was sitting in the room with these...
Mexican Migrant
Chapter 35, Migrant Melancholia: Emergent Discourses of Mexican Migrant Traffic in Transnational Space by Alicia Schmidt Camacho. This...
Polishing Brown Diamonds
Chapter 32, Polishing Brown Diamonds, African American Women, Popular Magazines, and the Advent of Modeling in Early Postwar America...
Mexicana Farmworkers
Chapter 25, Raiz Fuerte, Oral History and Mexicana Farmworkers by Devra Anne Weber. Devra Anne Weber uses a woman’s recount of her...
Japanese American
Chapter 22, Japanese American Women and the Creation of Urban Nisei culture in the 1930s by Valerie J. Matsumoto. This essay was...
Cosmetics Make Their Mark
Unequal Sisters-Chapter 20, Making Faces, The Cosmetics Industry and the Cultural Construction of Gender, 1890-1930 by Kathy Peiss. This...
Chicago Life
Unequal Sisters-Chapter 19, Sexual Geography and Gender Economy, The Furnished-Room Districts of Chicago, 1890-1930 by Joanne Meyerowitz....
