What is the name of the painting and the name of the artist?
El Garden by Judithe Hernandez
Where does Blackwell teach and what does she teach?
UCLA, teaching Chicano/Central American Studies
Which school did Las Hijas de Cuauhtemoc publish?
Cal State Long Beach
Where did Blackwell get her education?
•BA, Double Major in History and Interdisciplinary Studies of Race and Gender, minor: Spanish, CSU Long Beach (1993)
•MA, History of Consciousness Department, UC Santa Cruz, (1996)
•PhD, History of Consciousness Department (Women’s Studies), UC Santa Cruz (2000)
Who are the editors of This Bridge Called My Back?
Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua
Who is Yoalanda Broyeles-Gonzalez?
She is a Yaqui-Chicana Professor and activist who challenged/questioned the male centered Chicano Movement.
Who are the Hijas de Cuauhtemoc?
a student Chicana/Femenist news paper founded by Anna Nieto-Gomez
Who established the National Association of Wage Earners in 1920?
Nannie Burroughs and Maggie Wallace
According to Blackwell, what is retrofitted memory?
"a form of counter memory that uses fragments of older histories that have been disjuncture by colonial practices" pg 2
What is hegemony?
the predominance of one social group over others
What is hegemonic feminism?
is a social construct that is a prominently for white women empowerment
What is the problem with "bait and switch"?
it acknowledges the importance of women of color in feminism but then continues to elaborate on the history of feminism as if white women were the only historical figures.
What did Anna Nieto-Gomez say to Blackwell about many women of her generation? page 4-5
She says that despite being advocates many women abandoned their studies due to the hostile university climate. Activism became the priority instead of education.
What is Blackwell's purpose for chapter 1?
to show case all the untold stories of powerful women who were the first to create pathways for many woman of color in the woman’s movement
What does Blackwell argue for chapter 1?
Women of color feminist practices are being silenced by dominant forms of historiography.
Name all the woman involved in the activism against slavery?
Sojourner Truth, Maria Stewart, Harriet Tubman, Ida Wells Barnet, Anna Julia Cooper
When did Blackwell begin this project and for what purpose? Ch1
She began this project in 1991 as a student researching on the obscured historiography of the second wave of the feminist movement.
How was the Chicano Movement historicized? Ch1
"The history is organized around epic male heroes rather than the multisided local community and labor struggles that coalesced into a national movement." pg 28
What are some things Angela Davis has explored over her activism?
What does BeckThompson argue in A Promise and a Way of Life? Reading ch1
"that there are multiple feminist traditions with separate origins that influenced each other."