Silent Dancing Judith Ortiz Cofer Analysis

All Indians must dance, everywhere, keep on dancing. Pretty soon in next spring Great Spirit come. He bring back all game of every kind…all dead Indians come back and live again. They all be strong just like young men, be young again. Old blind Indian see again and get young and have fine time. When Great Spirit comes this way, than all the Indians go to mountains, high up away from whites. Whites can't hurt Indians then. Then while Indians way up high, big flood like water and all white people die, get drowned! After that, water go way and then nobody but Indians everywhere and game all kinds thick… (Wovoka, The Paiute Messiah qtd. In Brown 416).

The book goes through Jeannette’s life exposing the mistakes she, her siblings, and her parents made to become the family they were. As her life grows older, Jeannette finds herself in more responsible positions in the world, with editing school newspapers, to writing columns in a small New York newspaper outlet. Her troubles have raised the issue of stereotyping, a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. Due to her status in her childhood, it was not hard for her to fit in with the other members of the poor community. “Dinitia explained that I was with her and that I was good people. The women looked at one another and shrugged.” (Walls 191) The quote talks about how members of the black community in Welch accepted Jeannette to go swimming with them in the morning hours before the white people went in the afternoon. The people who knew Dinita, Jeannette’s friend, knew that Dinita was trustworthy, and let Jeannette pass. This relates to the thesis because it shows how she was accepted amongst the people who were

In 1973, Christopher Bruce heard about the murders going on in the small villages and towns of Chile on the orders of the government; just to show off their power, and how they were not afraid to use it. Bruce found out as a result of a letter received from a widow of a Chilean folk singer who had been murdered. He was asked to do work for the Chilean Human Rights Committee. The dance first premiered in 1988, the costume designer being Belinda Scarlett and the music being by Incantation, playing the song ‘Ojos Azules’ which is Spanish for ‘Blue Eyes’.

Dancing” three woman represent a cultural shift of Puerto Rican immigrants, by each woman's lifestyle was one was halfway Americanized half Puerto Rican looking, one was Americanized, and one was still in the Puerto Rican culture. In the home movie, there were three women the cousin, mother, and the brother's girlfriend sitting on the couch together wearing all red dresses, During the time of the party, each woman is experiencing something different just by looking at how they were dressed. During the home movie, All three are years younger and older than each other. The author had asked her mother why every woman at the party was in a red dress, all the mother could say was that it was all a coincidence.(52)

In her book, Salsa Dancing into Social Science, Luker discuss the importance of sampling, operationalization and generalization in canonical social science research while highlight the believe that each of these ideas can also be applied to qualitative research. While all three concepts are important to consider when it comes of qualitative research. It is import to definite that similar and differences. The following gives an overview of how each competent uses within canonical social science research, how that translates into effect qualities and explore the ways in which Hochschild utilizes these methods in her research for Strangers in Their own Land

Cofer really uses her culture to illuminate the rawest forms of feelings she has faced within her experiences of being stereotyped. As a

Having a clear understanding of who you are and how you define yourself helps fight prejudice and discrimination. Being on the fence between two very different cultures can set a person apart from other people. Two writers who share this lifestyle is Emiene Shija Wright and Judith Ortiz Cofer. Judith Ortiz Cofer is the writer of The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria which briefly in depth shares her feelings about prejudice and discrimination using her own personal experiences and conveying the message through her writing. Emiene Shija Wright is the writer of Saying Something in African which shares her experience and frustrations with discrimination and wanting to “belong” and shows her transition to the way she decides

The autobiography When I was Puerto Rican, written by Esmeralda Santiago, tells a story of a poor girl trying to succeed. The settings in this novel have an important influence on Esmeralda. They influence her behavior and change her ideals as an adult. Negi goes through many changes based on the challenges she faces by moving to new locations where society is different. All of these changes allow her to become a stronger person. When she lives in El Mangle, Negi has to face extreme prejudice against her upbringing as a jibara. When she leaves Puerto Rico to move to Brooklyn, she is forced to face an entirely different society. All of these events that took place in Esmeralda’s childhood had a significant impact in shaping her into an adult.

Judith Ortiz Cofer Was born in 11952, she moved with her family to Paterson, New Jersey, and when she was fifteen, the family settle in Augusta, Georgia. She is the Author of numerous books. In this essay from her book Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a writer (2002) Cofer remember a woman who make a big impact in her life during her teenage, Ms. Cofer talk about the Sister Rosetta as role model, she describe her with unique technique as teacher.

From kindergarten until high school, I was a member of the Jean Wolfmeyer School of Dance. Up to 5 days per week, I would be at the dance studio taking classes, rehearsing for shows, and helping out in the less advanced classes. Regardless of skill level, Jean never hesitated to speak the brutally honest truth about students’ performances and she never settled for anything less than perfection. Jean would often preach that she is only the instruction manual and she cannot make us good dancers, we had to do that for ourselves. However, it was not her critique or teaching alone that motivated dancers to perform well, it was her relentless work ethic and commitment to her studio. As a 70 year-old women, Jean held classes as much as 7 days per

The women of the story are not treated with the respect, which reflects their social standings. The first image of the women that the reader gets is a typical housewife. They are imaged as “wearing faded house dresses and

21st of May, California State University of Long Beach held the CSULB Dance In Concert at Martha B. Knoebel Dance Theater with the collaboration and choreography by the CSULB dance faculty such as Colleen Dunagan, Rebecca Lemme, Sophie Monat, Andrew Vaca, and featuring guest Laurel Jenkins and Doug Varone. From the show, the dances represented through various genre such as contemporary, contemporary ballet, and modern dance. The element of contemporary defines as a collaborative style that includes modern, jazz, ballet, and hip hop. All these styles of dances were shown by connections after each intermission. In particular, I will concentrate mostly about contemporary dance out of all the dances in the concert and talk about the effects on three out of six performances. The performances reflects mostly on how we describe life and nature and partially define life to every aspect of the emotion were being introduced by the dancers.

Kyle Abraham’s “Absent Matter” is the newest dance performed by the Abraham In. Motion company and the Joyce Theater located on 175 8th Avenue in New York, NY was debuted on November 10, 2015. This is another racially driven performance by Pittsburgh born Kyle Abraham dancer and choreographer (Kourlas). The dance is broken down into three separate sections including “The Quiet Dance”, “Absent Matter”, and “The Getting”. All three sections are performed with a sense of spontaneity and sincerity which is inspired from both Jazz and Hip-hop music and dances (Kourlas). It is believed this most recent production is inspired by the police brutality around the United States, and the Black Lives Matter movement.

Silent Dancing is a collection of thirteen stories and eighteen poems scattered amid the stories. This is to say then, that Silent Dancing is Ortiz Cofer's record of the recollections that shaped her, her imagination and her creative gifts. Ortiz-Cofer spent her childhood in New York ("Los Nueva Yores") and Puerto Rico. Life as a Puerto Rican living on the island plus a Puerto Rican living in the United States exposed her to two different worlds. Ortiz-Cofer and her family took annual trips whenever her Dad, a Navy officer, was away on duty.

This woman was working as a servant for a white family, showing that the “bright future” that was being promised to these aboriginal children was very likely false. There was a part where this woman begged the girls to not leave, for fear that the man she worked for would come to her room in an attempt to sleep with her. I found that this scene displayed the sexism that was imbedded in the current society and in the reform schools. These schools where putting young children in a situation where they were learning do purely what they are told, to be subservient. This would have been especially problematic for young girls and women, as the subservience they were taught put them in situations where they would be taken advantage of and not be able to do anything for fear of retaliation from a superior.