DEVS 492 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: White Supremacy, Heteronormativity, Neoliberalism
24 Nov 2016
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Alternatives to development de-colonization and re-indigenization and self-determination versus self government. Role of mexican indigenous peasant women always viewed as secondary to men in their communities. Women nor recognized as significant to society until they are married to a man and/or bear a son. Men have primary rights over income, land rights, and community decision making. American scholar, activist focusing on indigenous communities. Challenges the (cid:498)patriarchy within native communities, but also white supremacy and colonialism within mainstream white feminism(cid:499) By decentering white feminism and disclaiming the tenets associated with it, the great heteronormative underpinnings are challenged and a resurgence can begin. The cultivation of an alternative: indigenous feminism within zapatista women. They carry the brunt of all child rearing, subsistence farming, cooking and cleaning responsibilities. Often work secondary job in coffee bean/tobacco harvesting or as a worker in the homes or on the lands of wealthy landowners (outside indigenous territory)
