Citation: Mendoza-Denton (2009) Homegirls: Language & Cultural Practice Among Latina Youth Gangs. Central Theses: - Phonetic awareness was evident to people in this study; T-rex as an example. Such phonetic variations may be interpreted differently to various people. - Homegirls is he first monograph-length ethnographic study of the Nortena/Surena youth gang dynamic. - In her research she analyzed how semiotic elements of speech, bodily practice and symbolic exchanges that are employed to signal social affiliation, coming together to form styles- specifically the Nortena/ Surena gang girl styles of Northern California.
I am analysing Beneath Clouds within context to ‘Representing Australia’, and the key components relating to the text such as prejudice, racism and colonialism in Australia. In particular I will research the effects that colonialism has had on the new generation of Indigenous Australians . The text Beneath the Clouds; a journey of two teenagers in remote Australia, characters Lena and Vaughn are drawn together as their lives take the same path to Sydney. The debateable romantic relationship between the two is ambiguous, portraying an unspoken connection, with an approach toward aboriginal life, post colonialism, a colourful representation where I will also explore the effects of racism and prejudice from an adolescent standpoint. My research will focus on the
This essay will also look at the role of women and homosexuality and discuss whether Freud’s views where based on a cultural prejudice when he devised the psychosexual theory. Freud’s theory of psychosexual development. Freud’s theory of psychosexual development was devised in the late 19th century and was tested and researched on middle class, Viennese women. Freud believed that in order to understand a client’s presenting issue then we would need to look into their childhood to establish why the client was suffering neuroses. Freud believed that it was possible to link the psychosexual stages of development with adult neuroses.
Serna Nanda is a cultural anthropologist and professor. Much of work has involved Indian culture. She has even done work surrounding the judicial system in India. Her dissertation research for her doctorate degree at New York University was conducted on social relationships in India. Her connection is to Indian culture is easily illustrated in this book as she delves deeply into the way the hijra identity is perpetuated in Indian history and culture.
S. Covington and B. Bloom, Gender-responsive Treatment and Services in Correctional Settings. In: E. Leeder, Editor, Inside and out: Women, prison, and therapy, Haworth Press, Binghamton, NY (2006) Women & Therapy, 29(3/4), 9–33. Wolf, Angela, Barbara E. Bloom, and Barry A. Krisberg. "The Incarceration of Women in California." University of San Francisco Law Review 43.1 (2008): 139-170.
In this critical analysis, we will first summarize the article based on the author’s thesis, then it will be compared to the readings in the textbook Cultural Anthropology. Finally, the article will be analyzed critically based on the author and his embodied experiences. Murray’s (2009) article on the Bajan queen’s and their sexual diversity show how there is a difference in the definitions of sexuality and gender in Euro-American culture and Barbadian culture. This argument was supported through Murray’s investigation of the transgender and gay community of Barbados through the point of view of the queen’s themselves. According to the transgender’s, there had always been queen’s in Bajan culture; they even had annual parades specific to the queens.
 A New Politics of Sexuality is written by June Jordan, an African American mother, who is also a bisexual woman in America today. In her piece she talks about her ideas about, and views on, sexuality and what it means to her. Jordan believes that the Politics of Sexuality is the most ancient and probably the most profound arena for human conflict. (Elwood-Farber, 118) When Jordan speaks about sexuality, she is not only speaking about gender. She also refers to the way gay, lesbian, and bisexual people, as well as women in general, deal with the struggle to fit into the social “norm” of how they should behave.
“To understand their current lives, it was necessary to learn how they got started in life, the various processes involved in their continued prostitution careers, the link between prostitution and drug use, the women's interactions with their pimps and customers, and the impact of the AIDS epidemic and increasing violence on their experiences.” (Sterk, Claire E., p.35, from Conformity and Conflicts: Readings in Cultural Anthropology) Claire Sterk is an anthropologist who engaged in a continuous study of prostitutes in Atlanta metropolitan area and New York City. Her research had required her to introduce and engage herself and discover the places where her informants worked and hung out. She had develop bonds and carry on unlimited interviews that allowed informants to show her their lives. Her research covers women who work in the lower line of the prostitution world. These women worked in the streets at night time, in hotels and other public settings known for prostitution activity and in a much less public settings for drug-use prostitutes like a crack house, which might be someone's apartment.
She is a campaigner for the rights of Indigenous Australians and South Sea Islanders. Bandler is best known for her leadership in the campaign for the 1967 referendum on Aboriginal Australians. Bandler is a native of Tumbulgum, New South Wales. A 1993 portrait of Bandler, by artist Margaret Woodward, is held by the State Library of New South Wales. Faith Bandler * Reproaches the Australian community for moving too slowly towards true reconciliation and racial equality after the quick progress made in the 1960’s.
CCS 105F Winter 2014 Sandra Ruiz 03/12/14 The Write Way to Fight for Social Change At the turn of the 20th to the 21st century, Chicana and Latina authors really made a move for social change through their texts. The term Chicana typically refers to Mexican women who were born and/or raised in the United States. Their literary works, whether it was directly or indirectly, addressed issues such as those of citizenship, education, and most of all sexuality. Three texts that offer a lot to talk about on these topics are Josefina López’s Real Women Have Curves: A Comedy, Demetria Martínez’s Mother Tongue, and Esmeralda Santiago’s When I Was Puerto Rican. By writing about discrimination and issues faced by many Latinos, especially/ Latinas,