¶ … Myths About Maria
Judith Ortiz Cofer's "The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria reveals how an educated Puerto Rican woman has to endure stereotypical labels from a variety of different people - mainly influenced by WASP culture. The three stereotypes that she has to withstand include: fashion, sexuality, and the notion that Latin women are thought to be little more than "domestics." Cofer explains how each of these myths unsettled her thinking, and at times, how her identity went through a bit of a crisis because she was raised in a Puerto Rican/Spanish-speaking, Catholic home, yet she had to tolerate slights from a largely white populace in Jersey who didn't recognize her cultural forms of expression, nor her sense of pride. Although each of these stereotypes myths represents a myth that Cofer has to debunk, perhaps the first noticeable one, fashion, occurred when she was still in high school.
Essentially, Cofer recognizes how her loud and ostentatious attire at a career day celebration led many of the pedagogues to treat her and her Latin contemporaries like second-class citizens. Cofer recalls how many of the Latin student contingent were greeted with scowls and turned-up noses...
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