Local reading on Monday!

November 5, 2009

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Hey, are you in the greater Charlotte area?  If so, come join me for a reading at 3:30 pm on Monday, November 9th.  I’ll be reading from Hijas Americanas and answering questions in the C. Shaw Smith 900 Room in the College Union at Davidson College.

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  • 1. Jennifer Kramer  |  November 8, 2009 at 5:34 pm

    Wish I could be there…just don’t live quite close enough.

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What does it mean to be beautiful in America? For years, pop culture has insisted that beautiful women are tall, thin, and blonde. So what do you do if your mirror reflects olive skin, raven hair, and a short build? Hijas Americanas: Beauty, Body Image, and Growing Up Latina offers a provocative account of the struggles and triumphs of Latina forced to reconcile these conflicting realities. Rosie Molinary combines her own experience with the voices of hundreds of Latinas who grew up in the US navigating issues of gender, image, and sexuality. This empathetic ethnography exemplifies the ways in which our experiences are both profoundly individualistic and comfortingly universal.

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