Voices in the Kitchen - Ch. 3 Homemade Culinary Art / Cooks as Artists
As we see in books and in movies, food is of cultural importance and inspired by emotions, creativity and the five senses. Not only does...
Voices in the Kitchen - Ch. 2 Sazon The Flavors of Culinary Epistemology
Chapter 2 delves into the idea of sazon. Sazon in this context refers to using the senses to cook. Sazon is a language and...
Voices in the Kitchen - Ch. 1 A Place of Their Own
Chapter 1 of Voices in the Kitchen explores through a Feminist lens, gender and its places that are rooted in ideology. Abarca wants...
Voices in the Kitchen - Introduction What's For Breakfast?
Today in my Latinas in US Society class, we began a new book entitled, Voices in the Kitchen by Meredith E. Abarca. We discussed the...
Narratives of Mexican American Women - Ch. 6 Narratives of the 2nd Generation
The final chapter of Garcia’s qualitative book explores the emerging identities of the 2nd generation women. Garcia discovers that...
Narratives of Mexican American Women - Ch. 5 Emergent Identities In A University Setting
Ch. 5 of Garcia’s book deals with the 2nd generation daughters’ emerging identities in the university setting. The daughters find...
Narratives of Mexican American Women - Ch.4 Confronting and Contesting Patriarchal Constraints
Ch. 4 looks at the respondents contesting and confronting patriarchal constraints. Issues faced by the 2nd generation include their...
Narratives of Mexican American Women - Ch. 3 Palimpsests of Identity
Chapter 3 of Garcia’s book compares the immigrants’ daughters’ layers of identities to the concept of palimpsests. A palimpsest is...
Narratives of Mexican American Women - Ch. 2 (Re)creating Mexico
Chapter 2 entitled (Re)creating Mexico, explores the immigrants' experiences in recreating feelings of their country of origin (Mexico),...
Narratives of Mexican American Women - Ch. 1 Narratives Of Second-Generation Mexican American Women
We begin the semester in my Latinas in US Society reading Narratives of Mexican American Women by Alma M. Garcia. Chapter 1 begins with...
