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[Sin ese libro], tú no podrías escuchar nada sobre nuestra tradición de resistencia femenina a la opresión, que se remonta a la mujer nativa que tomó los techos de las casas en lo que luego se convertiría en México e "hizo llover dardos y piedras" sobre los invasores españoles. O a la mujer que, en Oaxaca, demandó a su esposo por abuso y logró que su caso llegara a la corte en 1630. O a las mujeres Maya que encerró al cura español en su iglesia por no aceptar que se enterraran a las víctimas may
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― 500 Years of Chicana Women's History / 500 Años de la Mujer Chicana: Bilingual Edition
― 500 Years of Chicana Women's History / 500 Años de la Mujer Chicana: Bilingual Edition
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Sometimes we also find a tendency to view everything that's indigenous as good and anything "European"-such as Spain-as evil. That view overlooks such historical realities as the Aztec empire's oppressive domination of other indigenous societies and its class system, which privileged priests and the military. That view also forgets Spain was not a typically European nation after 600 years of rule by the Moors, an Arab/Berber people from Africa.
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― De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century
― De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century
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