Analysis Of Gloria Anzaldua's The New Mestiza Nation

Examining perspectives of women from countries other than the United States allows us to find feminists whose nationality plays an intrinsic role in developing their feminist ideology; Gloria Anzaldua’s, “The New Mestiza Nation” is one of these feminists whose worth examining. She describes how a multicultural feminist struggle can be fought by: “educating ourselves and younger generations in this Mestiza nation to change how students and teachers think and read by deconstructing Euro-Anglo ways of knowing; to create texts that reflect the needs of the world community of women and people of color” (Anzaldua, 277). Holding on to one’s culture, through deconstructing imposed ways of learning, is important to multicultural feminism no matter one’s ethnicity. Researching one’s ethnic background, to find a way through the strictly Euro-Anglo scholarship of modern American institutions, allows new global perspectives to manifest themselves within feminists in anyplace at anytime. …show more content…
A storm moves all around the globe to places of highly concentrated precipitation; similar to this is how feminist movements everywhere develop as a result of high concentrations of marginalized women who need to be heard. The wave metaphor only makes sense when we discuss feminist movements developed in a centralized and immovable area. In Dill and Zambrana’s “Critical Thinking About Inequality: An Emerging Lens” they cover the importance of understanding and applying intersectionality to see socially imposed boundaries. These imposed boundaries are not limited to but include, higher incarceration rates of women of color, lower wages for women all across the world, and the destruction of single mother welfare