File spoon-archives/third-world-women.archive/third-world-women_1996/96-06-05.103, message 39


Date:         Tue, 16 Jan 96 05:42:07 EST
From: Susan Canty Quinlan <SQUINLAN-AT-uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject:      Re: Naming the list


Regarding the latina/chicana controversy...One problem with the use of
latina to refer to hispanic women is the negation of Brazilian,
Guyanian, Surinam women. The word is not useful to my mind in the ways
it is usually used, ie. Latina=Hispanic.

abracos da Susan
Susan C. Quinlan               Department of Romance Languages
University of Georgia          Athens, Georgia 30602-1815
706-542-3161                   FAX 706-542-3287
 "Fundamental e' mesmo o amor"   Tom Jobim



   

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