Chicana Domestic Services Analysis

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Pages: 1

The author evaluates a social phenomenon of domestic services. Domestic services are the most accepted and common job taken by Chicanas women. Due to sexism and racism, Chicanas women who have a low education come to the United States and being labeled as those who work as low-paid labor and have to deal with humiliation. By introducing her colleague and the relationship between her colleague and his servant Juanita, a teenage Chicana, the author indicated the awkward and uncomfortable employment relationship between White American employers and chicana employers. The author introduces her own story in her memory working as a domestic servant when she was a graduate student. She tried to avoid every possibility of confronting her employers