PART I: VIOLENCE
“La mestiza undergoes a struggle of flesh, a struggle of
borders, an inner war” (Anzaldua, t1987, p. 100)
Part II: Healing
“The work of mestiza consciousness is to break down
the subject-object duality that keeps her a prisoner
and to show in the flesh and through the images in
her work how duality is transcended. The answer to
the problem between the white race and the colored,
between males and females, lies in healing the split
that originates in the very foundation of our lives,
our culture, our languages, our thoughts. A massive
uprooting of dualistic thinking in the individual and
collective consciousness is the beginning of a long
struggle, but one that could, in our best hopes, bring
us to the end of rape, of violence, of war.”
(Anzaldua, 1987, p. 102)
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