Women's Studies 2220E Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Patricia Hill Collins, Jordan Peterson, Mestizo
13 Jan 2017
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La conciencia de la mestiza; towards a new conciousness gloria anzaldua looking at how identities intercept a new conciousness calling for a type of ambiguity notion that identity is not fixed. Challenging the identities at the site of geography look at how land was taken by the us and how this has changed those people"s identity. Troubles her own culture because she"s a lesbian woman and speaks from a complicated identity, see power in this. She contrasts hill collins while anzaldua is arguing ambiguity hill collins is speaking from a place of a kind of fixed idea of what it means to be an african american woman. Controlling images mammy figure certain stereotypes that are placed upon african. American women the trope that do damage of people extend this out to any other groups subjected to controlling images. These stereotypes are not accidental and designate what women deserve and designate the treatment.
