Sexism and the Aspirations of Women.

Abstract

I f any of you are sons or daughters of firstor second-generation immigrants, then perhaps you remember as I do the first days of school. You were 5 or 6 years old and quickly learned the value placed on correct English, English without a accent, indeed the value of being Ameri and not foreign at all. Perhaps you, too, denied your own heritage and buried your ethnic and class origins. After several days at school, I told my grandmother, who commonly addressed me in Yiddish, Bubbie, to me in I'm an American and I won't answer unless you do. And perhaps your family, like mine, was generous to pert youngsters and felt awed by the American educa tional system as well. And so my grandmother and others in my family did make an effort to speak to me in English. Black children, of course, can and often do change their language patterns at the command of the schools, though they cannot deny the color of their skins and thus allegedly Americanize in the way that European immigrants could and did. The children of Latin Americans face problems similar both to black children and to Europeans who arrived in the U.S. with a language other than English/But some Latins, in these days of political consciousness, are holding fast to their language and their culture ? and I for one can only cheer them on.

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