hmm..

Whether it be black, asian or Chicana,all women of color face discrimination towards race, class and gender. I am so glad we have the opportunity to see discrimination from a different point of view. The majority of my studies within women studies have focused on the different feminist theories, with a strong emphases on the black feminist prospective. It is such a fresh break to see a chicana standpoint. The differences between the black feminist and other feminist of color were interesting. I noticed that the Native American women tried to focus more on relationships of women in regards to land, which is something I would have never thought of in their perspective. I never really took into consideration the environmental issues that are leading to genetic, resporotory, and reproductive defects

Within the Chicana Feminism, the fight for equality seemed like those of other American women. It was interesting to see how they believed that their oppression came from their own Chicano men. It was interesting to see how they believed the internalized oppression the Chicano men felt from society was then in turn acted on their women. The indigenous women’s liberation however, was different from the Chicana feminist in the regards that they were raised on natural instead of man-made laws (525). They do not look at their oppressions in terms of gender, but rather the fight to reclaim their devine statuses of “daughters of the earth” (528). This was something I would have never contributed to when looking from a feminist critique.