Gender Roles in Salt of the Earth, El Norte and Zoot Suit

Throughout the score of Chicano film and literature, sexual activity roles and gender specific stereotypes have compete a monu mental role, define an entire generation of cinema. Whether it is the Latin lover and his irrepressible charm, the machismo who demonstrates native strength, the Dark Lady who invokes proneness from men of every race, or the influential and hard functional women who overcome insurmountable obstacles. \nIn the film Salt of the Earth, direct by Herbert J. Biberman, the gender roles postulate a dramatic crack never seen before in Chicano film. The obvious differences in how rescript treats the men and the women of this mining townsfolk are quickly do clear; the men proceed and are part of the totality while the women stay planetary house and take care of the family. These men, and especially those men from this generation with Mexican heritage, often saw women as weak and nformer(a) ineffectual in anything other than child rearing. \nThis depend ence seen in women of this meter period was largely overdue in part to economics. The unjustified gender distinction that created men as the working differentiate prevented women from seeking means to give-up the ghost economically independent, thus never allowing them to act freely or to make key decisions regarding their mystify in life. \nIn the early twentieth century, Mexican women adhered to unyielding gender roles; while Roman Quintero was forced to deal with more and more poor work conditions, his married woman Esperanza could only continue to pass away their home as she passively waited for change to come. Esperanza had literally no power at heart her home, or the wider community, so that the concerns she had for practical matters were almost completely ignored by the activities of the male Union activists. The women within the mining community were consistently treated with the same mischievous disdain that the Anglo workers displayed toward their Mexican coun terparts. However, as time went on she and several(prenominal) of her peers found the strength and powe...