FEM 2107 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Mestizo, White Supremacy, Hybridity

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 2107
• Professor: Christabelle Sethna

Document Summary

Immigrant parents being strict with their daughters: sex for marriage, racialized and fetishized. Same culture marriages: women carries tradition and language. Lives on the boarder of texas and mexico: mexican indigenous feminist whose a lesbian, responding to white supremacy, envisioned a race of hybrid people, rejected binary thinking. Mestiza - higher level of realizations/consciousness of borderlands. New mestiza - you do not belong to just one race or category but intertwine with a range of them. Contact zone - places where hybridity can happen: where culture and languages make contact. Diaspora - spreading of seeds: dispersing of people who are of common origin. Colonial hybridity: attempts made by colonizer to change or transform indigenous people. Radical hybridity: anti colonial strategy used by colorized population, adopts tools of the colorizer to resist colonizer, legal system, education, language, authors. Diasporic hybridity: creation of new trans cultural forms, there is no such thing as non contaminated culture.