Images of Latinas: Week 5

In the Workplace: Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender

This section will focus on how power and inequality, based on gender and race,take form in the experience of Latinas in the workplace.

Readings

• Denise A. Segura, "Chicanas and Triple Oppression in the Labor Force" pp 47-66.

Questions

• Question 1: What is the meaning of "triple oppression"? What are its characteristics in the work force?
• Question 2: What are some of the strategies that Segura proposes?

Group Presentation