Summary Of Myth Of The Latin Woman

Reading the article “The myth of the Latin Woman” by Judith Ortiz Cofer, implicitly, causes the reader to think about the issue of the ethnic prejudice. Cofer through vivid experiences, demonstrates in her article the United State discrimination against the Latin American people; experiences, which caused me somehow a revolt, since I am also Latin American. Cofer at the end of her article wrote a poem called “God’s brown daughters”, which is nothing more than a social appeal to ethnic equality and respect, demonstrating that Cofer, as a Latin American, does not fit the United State culture, feeling that most of the victims of ethnic prejudice has. Through this exposed social issue we may ask: What is ethnic prejudice and when an ethnic prejudice