I was just reading Judith Ortiz Cofer’s The Myth of the Latin Woman in our class textbook.  At the same time, I’m designing a visual analysis project for my writing classes.   This had to be like one of those chocolate meets peanut butter moments.   Judith writes about real-life racial and sexual stereo types. I think it was the editor of the anthology that may have threw in a reference to Salma Hayek.   Here, I’m going to analyze the movie poster from Salma’s bio-flick Frida.  I mean, who better to look to than Salma and Frida for standing up to prejudice and social standards.

I look forward to what films my students choose.  We’re looking at words, colors, symbols, messages.  This is going to be fun.