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== Antonia Castañeda’s“Women of Color and the Rewriting of Western History” == | == Antonia Castañeda’s“Women of Color and the Rewriting of Western History” == | ||
| − | The last sentence of this essay sums up her argument well. "The study of women of color requires us to reexamine, challenge, and change those structures. Only then will we decolonize western history." Castañeda points out how women's history can easily fall into the same error as "traditional" history does by focusing on one specific sub-group within women's history, in this case middle-class white women. Studying women of color places the historian at intersect that challenges both gender and racial studies. --[[User:Shauser|Shauser]] 19:48, 26 August 2009 (MDT) | + | The last sentence of this essay sums up her argument well. "The study of women of color requires us to reexamine, challenge, and change those structures. Only then will we decolonize western history." Castañeda points out how women's history can easily fall into the same error as "traditional" history does by focusing on one specific sub-group within women's history, in this case middle-class white women. Studying women of color places the historian at intersect that challenges both gender and racial studies. |
| + | I also wonder how many presumptions we make about western history because of white European influence. I love this notion of "decolonizing" western history and Castañeda only can begin to touch on some of the issues. How entrenched is our history in this "colonized" thinking? | ||
| + | --[[User:Shauser|Shauser]] 19:48, 26 August 2009 (MDT) | ||
== Gisela Bock's "Challenging Dichotomies in Women's History" == | == Gisela Bock's "Challenging Dichotomies in Women's History" == | ||
