DIRECTIONS --- Answer ALL questions. 6-8 pages total, Double-Spaced, 12 point Font. Times New Roman. 1-inch margins. DUE Monday 4/12 by Midnight QUESTION 1: TWO PAGES According to Homegirls Chapter 5,...

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Question Two    4
Question Three    5
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Question One
The question of power and feminism, as per the observation of Denton in chapter five of Homegirls, is driven from the biased approach of the society in the broad social context. The framing of lady gangs at the early stage of life is something that is intriguing the minds of the researchers and that is the reason behind this ethnographical and linguistic inquiry of the author. She projects the unrest of the gang members as the prolonged one i.e. the level of dissociation with other ethnic communities is bigger than ever and the girls are not mentally prepared to go through two biases at the same time namely, the bias related to the gender identity as well as the bias which forces them to take power in their hands in the name of controlling the community upfront. These girls are victimized by the social order and it forces them to show exceptional skills though it is done negatively.
Additionally, Denton is keen to present insightful views from within the community of Latinos whom she observes as a tutor or as a friend. The Foxbury episode of chapter five leads to the gender performance as driven from the bias of gender which exists in all communities of North California. The Latinos, in spite of holding control in various regions of California, adhere to the conventional approach of perceiving women as the weaker sex to males which keeps females of the community deprived from the basic human rights. This ongoing state of oppression leads to the points of forced interventions i.e. the girls having liberal thinking take the power and control of the community in their hands by proving the feministic viewpoints wrong or incorrectly justified. The term ‘performance’ is correctly used in this context; it is more like associated with the ethnographic evolution of the Latinos community but this evolution is not guided by the traditional form of evolution, it is something that the females have done on their own to build their individual identity though, it is driven from oppression and anger against the set rules of the society. In this case, membership reaches deep into the subconscious, complicating our perception of identity as a lived, gendered, affective, vocal, physical, and fluid relationship to individual geographies of space and memories of place, rather than a mere belief, cultural practice, or repression of the "big other." Mendoza-Denton makes sense of the Norten as' and Suren as' discursive traditions, invoking "hemispheric localism" to situate the lineage of challenges her participants faced in maintaining a stable cultural identity in the face of physical and cultural displacement from dominant society.
Thus, the stability of culture and its linking with the power in the society is analyzed broadly with the evolution...