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| What racial and class formations became visible in activism and scholarship by Wester, mostly white feminists advocating for reproductive -choice- vs women of color's attentiveness to reproductive -rights-? Why is it critical in this debate for Andrea Smith to make the connection between Indigenous women's bodies and nature in her chapter titled: "Natural Laboratories"? |
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*white: state as protector (of rights)
*WoC: justice. anti immigration law. welfare reform. viewed as reproductive threats. health care for immigrant fetuses, not women.
*Smith: natives see animals as deserving of bodily integrity so inseperable from all living beings. colonizers say like animals, so expendable/serve as guinea pigs/disposed of later.
*Huang:disparities of undocumented families unable to receive welfare, paying taxes, social constructs/racialization, fear gives way to power of govt to oppress |
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| At the 4th world conference in Beijing, China, which human rights violations against women were the most pressing for Western feminists (and Hilary Clinton)? Which were most critical to women from the Global South? What do these (mis)understandings tell us about the racialization of difference in the formation of space, time, and bodies? |
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*West-rape, infanticide, FGM >Clinton>stabilizing
*South-economic opportunities
*West-oppression through cultural lens>stabilizing
*space-us/them created by geographic layout (ex: even Arabs and Asians are "different")
*time-used to create binary between trad/mod; takes the blame off western world
*bodies-homogenizes (clinton says all 3rd world problems are the same when theyre not)
*Grewal-Am multiculturalism homogenizes women (shown in Clinton ex), ex: domestic violence: affects all women; various causes/outlooks/etc. |
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| Drawing from Gloria Anzaldua's book, Borderlands/La Frontera and Francis Negron-Mutaneer's film, Brincando el Charco, how does a mestiza consciousness in the borderlands and a diasporic queer perspective enact a decolonial imaginary? (Be sure to discuss language, memory, history, and their understanding of the importance of self-creation and empowerment through cultural productions). |
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*colonial imaginary-creates sub/obj identity, cant see self except through colonial lens
*decolonial imaginary-not one thing or another: lends to diff consciousness. creating your own imagery of a decolonized world/self, recovered by mestiza cons. and concept of borderlands
*mestiza consciousness-one that embraces cultural background (borderlands) as well as diasporic queer (displacement of queer people within the 3rd space)
*language-Spanish, native, English (Anzaldua), Spanish, English, queer [Eng as "safety"]
*history-Anzaldua&Negron share history of mestiza consciousness, countries placed in borderlands by white US
*memory-recovery of multiple histories, testify
*Anzaldua: mestiza is bred from contradictions and ambiguity, pluralistic personality that is adaptable
*Negron: the true "diaspora" is integration of PR/US and queer understanding into an all-encompassing mestiza con., allows self to move within the borderlands and create identity and power |
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| Why is it politically necessary for women of color scholars to imagine the state, rather than cultural difference, as racial formation, in the debate over Welfare Reform? At the same time, why is it imperative to turn to transnational paradigms in understanding the racial and gender formations that prop up new global industries of feminized labor? |
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*M.C. perspective=erases pol history that created subordination
*state: erasing pol history erases pol power influence. erases power relations that created cultures as they now appear. erases power dynamics that target minorities. welfare: welfare queen-super fertile/hypersexual.
*feminized racialized labor: dexterity, precision. raced: noncitizen, vulnerable, disposable, displaced.
*Louie:blaming immigrants takes away blame from corporations/elite
*Burnham: homogenous idea of immigrant issues allows state to generalize terms and coverage |
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| How do Western construction of the veil as a sign of oppression racialie the East as "Other" in ways that mask U.S. complicity in the Middle East? How does this binary construction of the East vs the West erase the affinities between Settler Colonialism and Zionism? |
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*veil-trad/mod.ME/W.Muslim/Judeo-Christian. excuse to save women.
*settler colonialism>displacement.
affinity erased through binary. binary erases political relationship. disguises own power.
*Eisenstein: Asad argues the pluralism of Islam creates openness not discussed in homogenous view by US
*Naber: exclusion of Zionist(settler) critiques silences natives, veiling women erases her importance
*Maira: combining asian/arab studies would defy homogenous idea of the "other" in the east |
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