This week article “Too Latina To Be Black, Too Black To Be Latina” by Williams and “The Power of identity Politics” by Garza were so great and really helpful to have a wider understanding of identity politics. One of the points that I really liked was that America is built on a white identity politics, so anything that doesn’t fit in that category is basically irrelevant and so need a group of activists to fight for it. Like Williams mention in her article “Too Latina to Be Black, Too Black to Be Latina”, “I’ve learned though, that just because I don’t fit into one specific mold or the other doesn’t mean I’m any less of who I am”. I feel so relate to this because major of us may doesn’t fit in certain category but we any less and this is something that is a daily thing to deal with. At some point I can say it has become a normal thing to discriminate. The fact that many might doesn’t identify just a human is for the reason that the society has create and so they have to stand out to support the minority maybe as a group they do not have all the power but as an individual they do and if all this individual comes together and fight then it become more powerful. Everyone has right and so the right for the desired for their own liberation base on their own experiences. These two articles were powerful to expand the understanding of identity politics as one can relate to this in their own experiences.
Bianca Cruz
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