1.1. - Gloria finds irony in her employer's struggle to accept her daughter's desire for independence, while Gloria wishes her kids would be more independent
1.2. - Eliana is mistaken as her grandson's baba because his skin is much lighter, which is a role she previously played
1.3. - it was pointed out that debates about racism take place in the U.S constantly while classism is going on right under our noses
2. Racism
2.1. - Girls who look a certain way are given the more jobs than the girls who look like Gloria's daughters who are Afro-Brazilian
2.2. -dark skinned people are limited in job searches because ads require a "boa aparencia"
2.3. - dark skin is associated with dirty work"domestic work" and is associated with ugliness and slavery
3. Relationships
3.1. - the relationship between Gloria(domestic worker) and Dona Beth(employer) was almost familial but ambiguous
3.2. - general domestic worker-employer relationships exibit racism, but doesn't necessarily indicate hostility towards the domestic
3.3. - although ambiguous, the lines limits between domestic worker and employer is never crossed by either Gloria or Soneca
4. Humor
4.1. - Gloria is able to joke about her serious life issues ;she jokes about "running away from home"
4.2. - Goldstein highlights that Gloria reminisced about her labor exploitation at the hands of 2 sisters, with their "black humor"
4.3. - Gloria will jest with her darkest son that he will only be fit to clean after white people as a form of discipline
5. Classism
5.1. - classism based of of race is evident, since girls of Afro-Brazillian descent get the lowest pay
5.2. - everyone in middle class is expected to have a maid and cook
5.3. - servants were the difference between working class and middle class
