Colonize This!

Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism

Author: Daisy Hernández
Secondary Author: Bushra Rehman
ISBN: 9781580050678

It has been decades since women of color first turned feminism upside down, exposing the '70s feminist movement as exclusive, white, and unaware of the concerns and issues of women of color from around the globe. Now a new generation of brilliant, outspoken women of color is speaking to the concerns of a new feminism, and to their place in it. Daisy Hernandez of Ms. magazine and poet Bushra Rehman have collected a diverse, lively group of emerging writers who speak to their experience--to the strength and rigidity of community and religion, to borders and divisions, both internal and external--and address issues that take feminism into the twenty-first century. One writer describes herself as a "mixed brown girl, Sri-Lankan and New England mill-town white trash,” and clearly delineates the organizing differences between whites and women of color: "We do not kick ass the way the white girls do, in meetings of NOW or riot grrl. For us, it’s all about family.” A Korean-American woma

Publisher: Seal Press
Publish Date: 2002

Subjects: Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Social Science / Minority Studies, Social Science / Women's Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Cross-Cultural Center (Location: Feminism (FEMM)), Women's Center (Location: Intersectionality)