A Black Feminist Statement

This article focuses on finding ways to develop an anti-racist and anti-sexist policy. It is also linked to other movements. On the other hand, writing is also proposed as a way to fight against a system of patriarchal oppression. Another important point of this reading is the need to recognize ourselves as humans, how we can define our identity without linking it to sex or race. This need to be recognized by others, that white women educate other white women in order to eradicate the cluster. However, black women join black men to fight against racism, and at the same time black women must fight against black men to eliminate sexism and achieve fair and equal treatment.

In this article, as Gloria Anzaldúa states, writing appears as a weapon, as a tool to talk about her own struggles and at the same time connect with other groups. With respect to my research the subject of writing continues to appear in these articles as a way of liberation of oppressed groups. However, in the case of the traveling nuns, their writing arose as a requirement to be able to keep the community informed and especially the superior mothers about their trip. However, they were oppressed by a patriarchal system that dictates the way in which they must act and live. At the same time, the nuns created a new system of oppression that would change the lives of Indians and blacks who they evangelized. In this way, a chain of oppression was generated that still exists in the present. I think it is important to ask ourselves if they really fulfilled a role as civilizing / conquering or are simply another piece in this chain. On the other hand, in their writing there are moments where they try to express freely, and manage to get out of the guidelines of conventual writing. Again, I wonder how can we read their journals?

This Bridge Called My Back, “Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to Third World Women Writers” (163-172)