At the beginning of the semester, we discussed what constituted good writing, as well as what constituted bad writing. Over the course of the last three weeks, we have been assigned to read portions of Laska's Hidden America. After reading Underworld, Hecho en América, G-L-O-R-Y, and Traffic, I have concluded that Hidden America is stuck somewhere between being good and bad writing. Hidden America includes aspects of good writing as well as aspects of bad writing, constituting Laska's Hidden America as an average text in my opinion. The text offers good textual support, great detail, and a good connection to the audience, however, sometimes Laska's sources seem not as credible or biased and at times her passages can be difficult to follow.
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For example, in the chapter titled, Hecho en América, Laska writes, "The sugary blueberry smell came out with a rhythmic punch as the was continually jostled, and the shush, shush, shush of the rakes was roughly in time with the thumping beat coming from the trucks. You could see the necklaces swinging as the workers raked, glints of sliver and gold catching the sun. The rocky fields fell into dips and deeper hollows, stretching into the horizon that moved past blood red and on to yellows and blues," (64). The chapter Hecho en América, is about migrant workers in America and what their day to day lives are like. These migrant workers in particular are blueberry pickers. Laska throughout this entire chapter goes into such detail about the conditions of the blueberry camp and the workers conditions and just what it life is like in general. Laska strives to make sure we are capable of putting ourselves in the shoes of migrant workers. While these details are prominent in Hecho en América, these details can also be found in all the other chapters we were required to read. The details Laska provides makes it easier for us to efficiently see the "hidden Americas" from the point of view of each "hidden America" highlighted in this
For example, in the chapter titled, Hecho en América, Laska writes, "The sugary blueberry smell came out with a rhythmic punch as the was continually jostled, and the shush, shush, shush of the rakes was roughly in time with the thumping beat coming from the trucks. You could see the necklaces swinging as the workers raked, glints of sliver and gold catching the sun. The rocky fields fell into dips and deeper hollows, stretching into the horizon that moved past blood red and on to yellows and blues," (64). The chapter Hecho en América, is about migrant workers in America and what their day to day lives are like. These migrant workers in particular are blueberry pickers. Laska throughout this entire chapter goes into such detail about the conditions of the blueberry camp and the workers conditions and just what it life is like in general. Laska strives to make sure we are capable of putting ourselves in the shoes of migrant workers. While these details are prominent in Hecho en América, these details can also be found in all the other chapters we were required to read. The details Laska provides makes it easier for us to efficiently see the "hidden Americas" from the point of view of each "hidden America" highlighted in this