Discussion Questions: "Hijas Americanas" by Rosie Molinary

[Sabrina]

Hi all...I am REALLY sorry that I only have 3 discussion questions.
It's been a crazy couple of weeks for me and still need to read the
end of the book. If anyone else has questions or topics of discussion
they want to add, please do so! See you tomorrow.

- Sabrina

According to the author, the adolescent and young womanhood
experiences (especially pertaining to sex and dating) are quite
different amongst Latina, Black and White women. Are there any
similarities that do exist? Is it more damaging than not to identify
those attributes that we can share?

If a Latina woman (or any woman for that matter) chooses to accept the
traditional social roles American women have fought against of female
subservience, is it impossible to define oneself as a feminist?

If you define yourself as a “Latina feminist,” do you have to redefine
the term feminism because “feminism” has been centralized around the
middle-class white woman experience?