ENGLISH R1B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Underweight
Document Summary
Cofer, story of my body (some of the questions below were taken from fields of reading: this autobiographical piece begins with a quotation: migration is the story of my body (from victor hernandez cruz). Is there an overarching theme in the essay: cofer devotes separate sections to skin, color, size, looks, even though they are concerned with overlapping, maybe even synonymous, aspects of her experience. (for example, She says that the media are influencing minority women to try to change their looks to reflect the. Use harmful skin-bleaching creams in the belief that whiter is prettier (83). Did she internalize the mainstream american ideal of beauty? (look for passages in the essay to support your answer. ) In the incident with the angry grocer, cofer first experienced color prejudice (136).
