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I find it interesting when I read pieces about women of different ethnicities speak about women's rights. A lot of times women of ethnicities other than white were not able to come together in the fight for equal rights with those white women because of the color of their skin. They do seem to have many of the same issues, however. In this piece Mirta Vidal talks about being seen as inferior to the opposite sex, women fought to end all forced sterilizations, and the Chicana women were even concerned about having childcare available to them. I find it so interesting that many blacks and Hispanic women had to form their own women's groups for equal rights when they were facing many of the same problems that other white women were at the same time. Amy V. | I find it interesting when I read pieces about women of different ethnicities speak about women's rights. A lot of times women of ethnicities other than white were not able to come together in the fight for equal rights with those white women because of the color of their skin. They do seem to have many of the same issues, however. In this piece Mirta Vidal talks about being seen as inferior to the opposite sex, women fought to end all forced sterilizations, and the Chicana women were even concerned about having childcare available to them. I find it so interesting that many blacks and Hispanic women had to form their own women's groups for equal rights when they were facing many of the same problems that other white women were at the same time. Amy V. | ||
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| + | In response to Sarah about the third form of discrimination, I think that Vidal is commenting on the exploitation of Latino’s by employers in agriculture. I am not saying that this did not, and does not continue to happen to workers of other races, but I think a large portion of those exploited farm, nursery, orchard etc. workers that were and are Latino. Going off of that, I was struck by the trifecta of oppression that Vidal was illustrating. “Raza women suffer a triple form of oppression: as members of an oppressed nationality, as workers and as women” (455). Not only are these women oppressed in these ways, but she explained that they were oppressed within their culture by male chauvinism. Furthermore, she blames this “machismo” on European colonists in what seems like an argument against European Imperialism. I cannot say either way if I agree with that notion because I really don’t know enough about Latino culture prior to European occupation of the America’s, but I would venture to say, from what I know about history, she is probably making a valid point. -Caryn | ||
== "More Than a Lady" Ruby Doris Smith Robinson and Black Women's Leadership in the SNCC, Cynthia Fleming == | == "More Than a Lady" Ruby Doris Smith Robinson and Black Women's Leadership in the SNCC, Cynthia Fleming == | ||
