Readings for 988:303 Comparative Feminism: Latina     
    Feminisms in the U.S.
    Fall Semester 2010
    Rutgers University


    
    

Week Two Readings:	• bell hooks, “Introduction," in Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom • Paulo Freire, "Pedagogy of the Oppressed," • Norma Cantu, “Getting There Cuando No Hay Camino,” Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios • Iris Ofelia Lopez, “Reflection and Rebirth: The Evolving Life of a Latina Academic,” Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios
Week Thee Readings:	• U.S. Census Bureau. American Community Survey Reports, The American Community – Hispanics: 2004. U.S. Department of Commerce: Economics and Statistics Administration. http://www.census.gov/prod/2007pubs/acs-03.pdf • Annual Estimates of the Population by Sex, Race, and Hispanic or Latino Origin for States: April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2006 – New Jersey http://www.census.gov/popest/states/asrh/SC-EST2006-03.html • Denise Segura, “Chicanas and Triple Oppression in the Labor Force,” in Chicana Voices: Intersections of Class, Race, and Gender • Beatriz M. Pesquera and Denise A. Segura, “A Chicana Perspective on Feminism” in The Latino/a Condition: A Critical Reader
Week Four Readings:	• Ian Haney Lopez, “Chance Context, and Choice in the Social Construction of Race,” in The Latino/a Condition: A Critical Reader • Gloria Anzaldua, “La Concientia de la Mestiza: Toward a New Mestiza Consciousness” in Chicana Feminist Thought, p. 270 • Margaret E. Montoya, “Masks and Identity,” in The Latino/a Condition: A Critical Reader  - Bedolla, Latino Politics, "Chapter 1: Introduction"
Week Five Readings:	• Antonia I. Castaneda, “Sexual Violence in the Politics and Policies of Conquest: Amerindian Women and the Spanish Conquest of Alta California,” in Building With Our Hands • Yamila Azize-Vargas, “The Emergence of Feminism in Puerto Rico, 1870-1930” in Latino/a Political Thought • Virginia Sanchez Korrol, “In Search of Unconventional Women: Histories of Puerto Rican Women in Religious Vocations Before Mid-Century," in Unequal Sisters • Bedolla, Chapter 3
Week Six Readings:	• George Sanchez, “’Go After the Women’: Americanization and the Mexican Immigrant Woman, 1915-1929,” in Unequal Sisters • Vicki Ruiz, “’Star Struck’: Acculturation, Adolescence and the Mexican American Woman, 1920-1950,” in Building With Our Hands • Virginia Sanchez Korrol, “Survival of Puerto Rican Women in New York Before World War II,” in Historical Perspectives on Puerto Rican Survival in the U.S. • Bedolla, Chapter 4
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