Passing Likeness Sally Stein’s essay titled Passing Likeness: Dorothea Lange’s ‘Migrant Mother’ and the Paradox of Iconicity was published within Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, edited by Fusco and Wallis. Stein discusses the long unknown details behind an American icon: the Depression-Era photograph by Dorothea Lange entitled, ‘Migrant Mother.’ The photograph in question shows a disheveled and desperate-looking woman, caring for her children in what appears to be a hopeless situation. Shown sheltered by a makeshift tent and accompanied by merely the title of ‘Migrant Mother,’ one is lead to believe this nameless Caucasian woman is a permanent resident of this pea-picker’s camp without a husband to help providing food. Stein notes, “This modern version of the longstanding pictorial genre of mother and child, Kozol argues, chiefly served to reassure the public in the Great Depression that the most fundamental social unit – the nuclear family – was beleaguered, but still strong” (346). This image was particularly appealing to American viewers because most could relate to the struggle of this seemingly white American family.
The changing in the society role of Hmong mothers and daughters led to conflict and misunderstanding between mothers and daughters. The intensity and frequency of these conflicts are dependent upon the differing rates of adaptation and acculturation to U.S. cultural values and lifestyle. This research seeks to identify and discuss significant factors which contribute to conflicts which arise between Hmong mothers and their teenage daughters living in Merced, California as acculturation takes place in the United States. Questions were developed to gather information about the informants' backgrounds, families, mother-daughter relationship, the identification of potential problems, levels of education, and comparison of life style between the United States and Laos. These may provide insights and possible answers to identify conflicts between mothers and daughters as Hmong women integrate into American society.
Furthermore, it is important to recognize that hair is with out a doubt the most complex signifier African American women and girls use to display their identities in order to take on situated social meanings, and to understand how and why hair comes to matter so much in a Black women’s construction of their identity. Just as mentioned in Chris Rock’s, Good Hair, in Jacobs-Hueys’ book it is also evident that Black women feel the need to conform their natural state to a more common, typical look. It is through the hair salons, and educational seminars that teach individuals when hair is hair, and alternatively when hair is not just hair. These two seemingly contradictory stances hint at just
Two sisters experienced this struggle at separate stages, which has been experienced by their mothers,’ mother. Mary exposed the inhuman methods of the school through a newspaper they called the Red Panther. As Mary progressed to the next grades, she identified the undercutting line of racism. Her experience
| What is happening at this point in the story? Why is it important? | Abusive relationships between men and women (quote) | | | Education for women (or lack thereof) (quote) | | | Resistance to victimization (quote) | | | Political corruption (quote) | | | Part I: Chapters 1 - 15 1. Based on Nana and Mariam’s experiences, what can you infer about the lives of women in Afghanistan in the 60s? Why does Nana forbid Mariam to go to school?
She says that children from divorce family lose faith in marriage and are unable to make any relationship in their social life or in society. As her research moves ahead, she augers divorce among parents creates insecurity and makes child feel insecure when he or she other children with their parents happy and love bonding among themselves makes them insecure from inside. Third Thoughts on Divorce," National Review, Vol. 54, March 25, 2002, p. 50. Copyright © 2002 by National Review.
Self-love and racism play a very important role in Zora Neale Hurston's “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” The theme of love with her Granny was force upon Janie and finding love within her was described as a pear tree and the horizon. Janie spent her days looking for passionate love in three different marriages. With the character of Mrs. Turner, she shows how everyone is racist in the world, and she is black herself but don’t want to realize it because she’s biracial. Hurston’s theme of “Their Eyes Were Watching God” was based on the Harlem Renaissance and was shown dramatically throughout of the book. First, the theme of love with her Granny was force upon Janie and finding love within her was described as a pear tree and the horizon.
As Wendy Rose writes, her words transform into the scar tissue of her trauma, both indicating and masking her emotional wounds. In “Neon Scars”, Rose projects her authorial voice in a direct and cutting fashion to express her turmoil from the disconnectedness from her roots that she experiences. Born a mixed blood Native American, she addresses the lack of identity she feels due to the disparity between her European background and her Native American appearance. Additionally, she lives with the face of a Hopi native, but empty handed in claiming a spot in her tribe. Rose aims at portraying feelings of familial alienation through the scattered format of her autobiography where she outlines both the origins of her family and current psychological
In 1899, women were looked at as delicate beings that only needed rest to cure what ailments afflicted them. In “The Yellow Wallpaper” the woman was handled and spoken to like a child. She was made to believe that she knew nothing of her own body and feelings. She was influenced by her husband to feel
The lack of color in the picture is one way to portray a feeling of sadness. When someone thinks of sadness it is usually paired with the color of greys, blacks and whites. The gloomy colors in the picture help depict the depression that the mother could be feeling by not being able to provide necessities for her children. There is a silence portrayed by the mother and her two children in this photograph that also help to show the emotions that they might be feeling at this time. Even though the mother and the children are the main focus of this picture, you notice the sadness and worry on the mothers face first while her children’s heads are turned away from the camera.