"The Mexic Amerindian woman has inherited the sexism instituted by dominant Mexican and U.S. society compounded by the sexism within certain oppressed indigenous cultures. In neither the creative literature nor the ethnographic documentation, did I hear her speak for herself. Only in 1992, the quincentenary of European conquest, was the world delivered the voice of one Mesoamerican woman, the Mayan Rigoberta Menchu who received the Nobel Peace Prize for her ongoing activism on behalf of her people's human rights."
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Human rights activistsNobel Peace Prize laureatesFeministsWomen activistsIndigenous rights activists
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Ana Castillo Introduction to Massacre Of The Dreamers: Essays On Xicanisma (1994)
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