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Quotes from Massacre Of The Dreamers: Essays On Xicanisma — Ana Castillo

born 1953 United States

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The very act of self-definition is a rejection of colonization.

Massacre Of The Dreamers: Essays On Xicanisma (1994)

It is our task as Xicanistas, to not only reclaim our indigenismo-but also to reinsert the forsaken feminine into our consciousness.

Massacre Of The Dreamers: Essays On Xicanisma (1994)

I am a brown woman, from the Mexican side of town-torn between the Chicago obrero roots of my upbringing and my egocentric tendency toward creative expressions.

Massacre Of The Dreamers: Essays On Xicanisma (1994)

The early feminista understood the erroneous conceptions of the white woman's movement that equated sexism to racism because she was experiencing its compounding effects in her daily life.

Massacre Of The Dreamers: Essays On Xicanisma (1994)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ana Castillo (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.