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Massacre of the Dreamers

By Ana Castillo & Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Massacre of the Dreamers by Ana Castillo & Clarissa Pinkola Estés digital book - Fable

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Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights
This new edition of an immensely influential book gives voice to Mexic Amerindian women silenced for hundreds of years by the dual censorship of being female and indigenous. Castillo replaced the term “Chicana feminism” with “Xicanisma” to include mestiza women on both sides of the border. In history, myth, interviews, and ethnography Castillo revisits her reflections on Chicana activism, spiritual practices, sexual attitudes, artistic ideology, labor struggles, and education-related battles. Her book remains a compelling document, enhanced here with a new afterword that reexamines the significance of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

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3.5
“This was overall pretty good though there was some fatalism within a lot of the book's arguments (and the general critique of marxism-leninism falling from a rather liberal standpoint didn't sit well with me, obviously), i.e. that because things were one way in the past w/in activism they will be that way in the future, a lot of the terms were really dated (i.e. referring to women's oppression based on physiognomy was rather embarrassing to read) and the cissexism could do without but there were some good parts to it, and it is the text that launched xicanisma”

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