Ethnic Notions And Racial Diversity

Ethnic notions and racial diversity

Introduction

Anti -racism and cultural diversity: liberations and the challenges of minorities, is a section within the 5th chapter of the book. This chapter deals with the different anticholonial, postcolonial and anti -racist trajectories. From a critical analysis, of feminist theory and decolonial theory, try to make us understand that in most of the time, what the movements of women have done is to develop their arguments from the reasoning existing in the society of its moment.

Developing

That is, try to show that feminism has been built since the white hegemony of women in the West or North America, excluding women from ethnic minorities. The anti -racism and cultural diversity section: liberations and the challenges of minorities, emphasizes the different movements of women of ethnic minorities in the United States and the United Kingdom, analyzing above all the movements of black women. At this point, the discrimination suffered by women "not white" is described deeply.

This is why white women have positioned themselves as the heroines of feminist movements thanks to their position of power that you have made their ideas impose forgetting the double discrimination suffered by non -white women. These feminist and women movements that did not follow the guidelines of hegemonic feminist movements, indicated that double discrimination was based on double oppression;Discrimination for non -white men and forgetting by groups dominated by white women.

To do this, in the 1970s with the movements of Afro -Caribbean and Asian women both in the US and the United Kingdom, a reconstruction of the term Black was made to create an identity in which they could fight for both reasons, feminism and anti -racism. It was achieved, thus, the term Black acquired a positive meaning. However, with the passage of time, the groups of Asian and Latin American women stopped feeling identified with that term.

conclusion

With what they began to create and organize by the different ethnicities. The different movements of women of ethnic minorities created "collective identity" to break the racial, social, cultural and religious barriers. In conclusion, it is a section that helps us understand the criticisms made to Western and imperialist feminism. It helps us to understand the need for plural perspectives from global diversity, which question, as does the reflectivist theory, the symbolic domination of Eurocentrism and the hegemony of white feminism for white for white, to denounce the exclusion that they refused to accept.