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It is always easier to battle strangers than one's family.
Feminism: The Chicano and Anglo Versions-A Historical Analysis (1980)
We can choose to repeat ancestral practices or to break with them.
La Nueva Hispana e Hispanidad" [The New Hispanic Woman and Hispanicity (1979)
Minorty women could fill volumes with examples of put-downs, put-ons, and out-and-out racism shown to them by the leadership of the [women's] movement.
Feminism: The Chicano and Anglo Versions-A Historical Analysis (1980)
Media, communication, and group action are urgently needed if we're going to control our lives in the Eighties and beyond.
La Nueva Hispana e Hispanidad" [The New Hispanic Woman and Hispanicity (1979)
One of the first Chicanas to come into contact with the suffragist movements in the 1880s was Lucy Gonzalez Parsons, a Chicana socialist labor organizer.
Feminism: The Chicano and Anglo Versions-A Historical Analysis (1980)
Hispanas and Hispanos together must confront the subject of equal rights. No one else is going to come in and resolve the situation for us.
La Nueva Hispana e Hispanidad" [The New Hispanic Woman and Hispanicity (1979)
Polling places in the southwestern states were almost always on the Anglo side of the tracks, where Mexicans were allowed for domestic work or other service jobs only.
Feminism: The Chicano and Anglo Versions-A Historical Analysis (1980)
Instead of optimisim, I am inspired by Erma Bombeck, universal humorist, whose words seem singularly directed to us: "If life is a bowl of cherries, what are we doing in the pits?"
La Nueva Hispana e Hispanidad" [The New Hispanic Woman and Hispanicity (1979)
The P.L.M. and its publication Regeneración became important vehicles for the espousal of women's rights in the U.S. within the Chicano community.
Our Feminist Heritage (1973)
We are completely aware that the condition-if you want to call it that of Anglo women can't help but affect us, since Anglo women teach our children and provide most of the input for all media in this society.
as long as Hispanos are not prepared to deal with women's equality they will be handicapped in their relationship with Hispanas.
La Nueva Hispana e Hispanidad" [The New Hispanic Woman and Hispanicity (1979)
What is stronger: racism or sexism? I believe racism. Anglo women must analyze their emotions and intellect and think clearly on this. Is the women's movement a move to place just another layer of racist Anglo dominance over minority peoples?
Jane Addams and others spoke and acted on behalf of women labor leaders like Lucy Parsons, assisting them in rallies, providing bail when they were arrested, and using their tremendous power and influence on behalf of working women.
Feminism: The Chicano and Anglo Versions-A Historical Analysis (1980)