"They would chop me up into little fragments and tag each piece with a label"

Chicana, Black, and Asian Feminists all share commonalities, in that their oppression is made up of the intersections of their status as a minority and a woman.  This is not really rocket science.  However, this is really the first time that I had the opportunity to learn about other ethnic/racial oppressions.  It is important to note that I did not include Native American feminists.  To me, it seems as though their oppression does not necessarily parallel with the aforementioned feminists.  Native American feminists tend to focus on the land in relationship to them as women. I  thought of this to be very interesting, in that I never really thought of the disposal of waste and toxic chemicals as harmful to any specific group (at least not in America).  However, the presence of  birth defects, respiratory complications, and breast cancer left no question in my mind.  The indigenous peoples of America are being affected by the procedure of the dominant society. This is something that is obviously known or else the epistemological inferences about health concerns concentrated on the lands of the Native Americans would still be a mystery.  Wionna LaDuke points out that they understand the relationship between the environmental impacts of its (such as major corporations) developments on their lands as well as the subsequent health impacts on their [women's) bodies.   I really appreciated the fact that Native American feminists really emphasized moving forthright not only with women, but also all indigenous peoples.  There were no undertones, rather it was in your face and explicit.  I can identify with that.  I think that if Black feminism was structured in the same, the implication of so-called intimidation would cease.  Granted, there is a dual oppression that Black women face, if Black men would be able to understand that they are oppressed too and do not occupy a space on the white man's pedestal, then maybe these harsh undertones of male bashing would cease and they would in turn, join the movement.  Anna NietoGomez asserts that "if you are a feminist you have some how become an Anglo or been influenced by Anglos."   I do not think that a person becomes an Anglo, but one may be influenced by the views of the dominant. That seems to be inevitable to me.  In my opinion, such influence perpetuates this dichotomous thinking often explicated in the feminist movement.  It would be really nice to see various racial feminists come together to fight their oppression.  Yes, they are fighting different issues, but nevertheless they are battling being a minority and a woman.  Much of their oppression parallels because of this.  This collective effort might be able to help strengthen (and by strengthen I mean challenge the stereotypical notions of Chicana, Asian, and Black feminists) their activism by counteridentifying with the mainstream way of thinking.  For example, Asian American women are interpreted as docile, passive women.  However, if associated with women whose voice has been heard in the past, perhaps, their issues will be taken seriously and their political activism seen as just that--teaching a person about their historical and contemporary oppression.  It is important that Asian American women work with other minority women because White women may continue to ignore them or by into the stereotype as in the past.  Norma Alacron declares that "feminism is the political theory and practice to free all women: women of color, working-class women, poor women, physically challenged women, lesbians, old women, as well as white economically privileged heterosexual women" (492).  This definition encompasses ALL women--no one is left out of the struggle.  With such a collective definition, I think that all feminist need to start working together to combat their oppressions, since the root of the oppression is the same--the dominant white patriarchal force.  In working together, women are not only helping themselves, but helping other oppressed women.  This would be a progressive move that I would love to be a part of.