The Feminization of Racism: Promoting World Peace in America

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Blea provides a synthesis of the women's history of Native Americans, Asians, African Americans, and Latinas, and she examines the similarities and differences among these women. From each she extracts suggestions on ways to promote racial and ethnic tolerance. After examining the backgrounds and experiences of female radicals, Blea looks at indigenous or Native American women and the impact of European colonization and domination. Subsequent chapters examine African American women, Asian and Pacific Island women, and ways the experiences of these groups can help devise an approach to healing from intolerance. Of particular interest to students and other researchers involved with women and ethnic studies, sociology, psychology, anthropology, and social welfare issues.

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"[C]ontributes to research on women of color, whose experiences have often been omitted from mainstream academic and popular literatures....Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above."-Choice
"It is essential for white women (and men) to acquire a deep knowledge and understanding of the historical realities--including being terrorized by fellow Americans--and socio-economic circumstances of women of color in the United States. Toward this end, Blea offers chapters rich with data on indigenous women. Chicanas and immigrant Latinas, African American women, and Asian and Pacific Islander women, respectively....[i]t seems unlikely that anyone could read her chapters on women of color in the United States without deepening their own appreciation of the resources they collectively offer for finding our way in a world in which the United States is increasingly regarded with disdain."-NWSA Journal
[C]ontributes to research on women of color, whose experiences have often been omitted from mainstream academic and popular literatures....Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.-Choice
It is essential for white women (and men) to acquire a deep knowledge and understanding of the historical realities--including being terrorized by fellow Americans--and socio-economic circumstances of women of color in the United States. Toward this end, Blea offers chapters rich with data on indigenous women. Chicanas and immigrant Latinas, African American women, and Asian and Pacific Islander women, respectively....[i]t seems unlikely that anyone could read her chapters on women of color in the United States without deepening their own appreciation of the resources they collectively offer for finding our way in a world in which the United States is increasingly regarded with disdain.-NWSA Journal
"Contributes to research on women of color, whose experiences have often been omitted from mainstream academic and popular literatures....Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above."-Choice
"contributes to research on women of color, whose experiences have often been omitted from mainstream academic and popular literatures....Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above."-Choice
"[c]ontributes to research on women of color, whose experiences have often been omitted from mainstream academic and popular literatures....Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above."-Choice

Author Bio

IRENE I. BLEA is the former Chairperson of the Chicano Studies Department, California State University, Los Angeles. A leading scholar in the field, Professor Blea published four earlier volumes with Praeger, Toward a Chicano Social Science (1988), La Chicana and the Intersection of Race, Class, and Gender (1991), Researching Chicano Communities (1995), and U.S. Chicanas and Latinas Within a Global Context (1997).