Author : Marta Moreno Vega
Release : 2012-04-30
Genre : Literary Collections
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Women Warriors of the Afro-Latina Diaspora by : Marta Moreno Vega
Download or read book Women Warriors of the Afro-Latina Diaspora written by Marta Moreno Vega. This book was released on 2012-04-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hers is one of eleven essays and four poems included in this volume in which Latina women of African descent share their stories. The authors included are from all over Latin America-Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Panama, Puerto Rico, Venezuela-and the United States. They write about the African diaspora and issues such as colonialism, oppression and disenfranchisement. Diva Moreira, a Brazilian, writes that she experienced racism and humiliation at a very young age. The worst experience, she remembers, was her mother's bosses' conviction that Diva didn't need to go to school after the fourth grade, "because blacks don't need to study more than that."