![]() ![]() " An Arab-American feminist deconstructs the "quaint vision" of Middle-Eastern women with which most Americans feel comfortable. I've heard it used many times by my parents' friends who don't know shit about me. " A Korean-American woman struggles to create her own identity in a traditional community: "Yam-ja-neh means nice, sweet, compliant. One writer describes herself as a "mixed brown girl, Sri-Lankan and New England mill-town white trash, " and clearly delineates the organizing differences between whites and women of color: "We do not kick ass the way the white girls do, in meetings of NOW or riot grrl. magazine and poet Bushra Rehman have collected a diverse, lively group of emerging writers who speak to their experienceto the strength and rigidity of community and religion, to borders and divisions, both internal and externaland address issues that take feminism into the twenty-first century. Now a new generation of brilliant, outspoken women of color is speaking to the concerns of a new feminism, and to their place in it. ![]() It has been decades since women of color first turned feminism upside down, exposing the 70s feminist movement as exclusive, white, and unaware of the concerns and issues of women of color from around the globe. Bibliography Includes bibliographical references. ![]()
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