Massacre of the Dreamers : Essays on Xicanisma
by Castillo, AnaFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1995-09-01
Publisher(s): Plume
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Summary
f the Dreamers points out the omissions and challenges the misconceptions of a society that recognizes race relations as primarily a black-and-white issue. Castillo's essays analyze the 500-year-old history of Mexican and Amerindian women in this country and document the ongoing political and emotional struggles of their descendants.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| A Countryless Woman: The Early Feminista | p. 21 |
| The 1986 Watsonville Women's Strike: A Case of Mexicana Activism | p. 43 |
| The Ancient Roots of Machismo | p. 63 |
| Saintly Mother and Soldier's Whore: The Leftist/Catholic Paradigm | p. 85 |
| In the Beginning There Was Eva | p. 105 |
| La Macha: Toward an Erotic Whole Self | p. 121 |
| Brujas and Curanderas: A Lived Spirituality | p. 145 |
| Un Tapiz: Poetics of Conscientizacion | p. 163 |
| Toward the Mother-Bond Principle | p. 181 |
| Resurrection of the Dreamers | p. 205 |
| Notes | p. 227 |
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