Word: cofer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ABRW also elected Bianca R. Gwinn '02 secretary; Jessica M. Reid '00 treasurer; Janelle A. James '00 as social chair; Jennifer K. Sunami '02 publicity chair; Danice L. Woodley '00 community service chair; Monique S. Cofer '01 the group's representative to the Harvard Foundation; and Adwoa M. Hurley '00 and Fana G. Houston '00 historians...
...first section includes some enjoyable and disturbing stories about family relation ships. Judith Ortiz-Cofer's "Silent Dancing, for example, address the Americanization of young Puerto Rican women. Ortiz-Cofer creates a compelling, shocking vision of how these newly liberated women handle their traditional families rooted in the old ways. The familial tensions resulting from assimilation into American society forms the binding theme for these selections. "That is insubordinate. It is improper. It is disrespecting her teachers!!!" a father screams at one Alvarez characters after she reads him a speech she wrote for a school assembly; the student would...