Colonize this

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Colonize this!

• Young women of color on
• todays feminism

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Questions that help us understand the historical
and social contexts of this book

• Can you identify the linkages among Colonize
  This!, This Bridge Called My Back and Haciendo
  Caras?
• What kinds of materials/genres/writings included
  in the book?

3
Analyzing the Foreword by Cherríe Moragafirst,
the differences (xi)

• Breaks out of nation-based identities
• Came of age hearing/reading feminist rhetoric
• Enjoyed benefits from early organizing

• Generational sharing
• Modeling of behaviors and practices

4
Moraga on the similarities between generational
analyses(xii-xiii)

• White feminist theory continues to ignore the
  realities that women of color live

• Continuing struggle to articulate the importance
  of analyzing the issues (sexism, racism, and
  homophobia) within cultural heritages and
  traditions

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Moraga describes strategies of intellectual and
personal sustainability(xiv - xv)

• Resist acquiescence
• Become warriors of conscience (thought) and
  action (activism)

• Develop a new language to describe passion,
  politics, prayers, and problems

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Forces that rob the spirit and offer actual and
metaphorical death

• Poverty
• Cultural assimilation
• Child abuse
• Motherless child-rearing
• Gentrification
• Mental illness

• Welfare cuts
• Prison system
• Racial profiling
• Immigrant hatred
• LGBT bashing
• Militarism

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What do Daisy Hernandez and Bushra Rehman have to
say?

• Lets read aloud their words on pages xvii to
  xix.

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Next steps for analysis

• Break out into groups of five persons to study
  one of the three assigned readings.
• Discuss the essay by responding to the following
  questions