Affect of Colonialism on Gender Equality of Immigrant Women

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Each are strong women who battle each other, men, the fuku, their past, their color, and--most important the fact that they are women. One can argue that this habit of undermining the female population comes all the way from when colonialism began to take place. Not only did this Western idea of colonizing mean degrading those that were more, barbaric and unfortunate. “..we must study how colonization works to decivilize the colonizer,to brutalize him in the true sense of the word, to degrade him, to awaken him to buried instincts, to covetousness, violence, race hatred, and moral relativism.” (Cesaire 35) But it was from this that the idea of judging humans by their appearance came about and began to exist. Prior to this the idea of looking and judging by color, gender and physical appearance was non-existent. What we fail to see as a society is the realness of this matter, the fact that still in the 21st century this idea of inequality hits almost every single female in one way or ...

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what drove Lola to the verge of insanity. “What it’s like to be the perfect Dominican daughter, which is just a nice way of saying Dominican slave.” (Díaz 56) She fought like a mad cat for justice, freedom and opportunities. Basic human rights, but not for the average foreign female in the U.S. Her battle was seen as her “crazy years.. what Dominican girl doesn’t have those?” (Díaz 24) Her sense of independence and bravery is taken and classified just merely because she is an ethnic female. “She’d turned into one of those Jersey dominicanas, a long distance runner who drover her own car, had her own checkbook, called men bitches, and would eat a fat cat in front of you without a speck of ...

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