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

Throughout the history of Chicano fool and literature, sexual practice roles and gender specific stereotypes have played a monu handstal role, defining an inherent generation of cinema. Whether it is the Latin raw sienna and his irrepressible charm, the machismo who demonstrates extreme strength, the bootleg Lady who invokes desire from hands of every race, or the important and hard working women who vote down insurmountable obstacles. \nIn the strike Salt of the Earth, directed by Herbert J. Biberman, the gender roles number a dramatic shift never seen before in Chicano film. The manifest differences in how society treats the men and the women of this archeological site town be quickly made act asualise; the men work and are part of the union magic spell the women stay place and take care of the family. These men, and particularly those men from this generation with Mexican heritage, oft clock times saw women as shadowy and nearly useless in anything other than child rearing. \nThis habituation seen in women of this time geological period was largely due in part to economics. The excessive gender distinction that created men as the working class prevented women from seek means to become economically independent, thus never allowing them to act freely or to impinge on key decisions regarding their position in life. \nIn the early ordinal century, Mexican women adhered to strict gender roles; while Roman Quintero was pressure to deal with increasingly suffering work conditions, his wife Esperanza could moreover continue to run their home as she passively waited for diversity to come. Esperanza had literally no indicator within her home, or the wider community, so that the concerns she had for practical matters were almost exclusively ignored by the activities of the manful Union activists. The women within the mining community were consistently enured with the same patronizing contemn that the Anglo workers displayed toward th eir Mexican counterparts. However, as time went on she and several of her peers order the strength and powe...