1. Chicana And African American Feminist Movements
... keep her quiet. In conjunction with African American women, Chicana women have also been fighting for their right to speak out in their culture. In the poem by Bernice Zamora, "Notes from a Chicana "Coed"", Zamora discusses how her husband wants her to "write (poems) about social reality, about "the gringo who oppresses you, Babe"" instead of her struggles within her culture ... the standards her culture has, Zamora has chosen to point out the hypocrisies and take the road less traveled by. While Zamora fights her fight on a more intimate front, Manuel Gonzales points out the more publi...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate