Sublime

For these activists, it was important to pressure multiple actors, including lawmakers, government agencies, universities, and private sector firms, to change research and design practices, adopt new approaches, and implement new standards of care.

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But identity politics as imagined by women of color feminists was fundamentally critical of a unitary and reified notion of subject formation”

Boundaries can become thresholds opening up new definitions of U.S. literature and identities that neither erase nor reinforce the many differences among the various texts we read.

As in so much of this book, I am interested in generativity;

respectively—transforms colonial possession into benign and mutually agreeable exchanges, all the while disguising the material, economic, and political conditions under which colonized islanders labored.

Anzaldúa’s writings communicated permission to synthesize analysis and creativity, vision and action, scholarship and political activism.

capacity to solicit the participation of publics,