Showing posts with label Streets of Gold. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Streets of Gold. Show all posts

GEND 356: The Mind At Work - Building off of Heidi

For this post I will be branching off of points that Heidi brings up in her blog post. 

Heidi asks the question towards the conclusion of her post: "why does [society] put such a stigma on waitresses and other low wage jobs?"  While Rose's main point in his book is to address classism, I would argue that the stigma in waitressing is also partly due to misogyny and/or racism.

GEND 356: Chang's "Streets of Gold"

Curtis Chang’s “Streets of Gold: The Myth of the Model Minority” centers discussion around the idea that Asian-Americans have not achieved racial equality in the United States, despite what media “mythology” would claim.