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In "La Guera", Moraga compared the discrimination she experienced as a lesbian to her mother's experiences being a poor, uneducated Mexican woman, stating that “My lesbianism is the avenue through which I have learned the most about silence and oppression, and it continues to be the most tactile reminder to me that we are not free human ...
In her essay, “La Güera,” Cherríe Moraga delves into the observations and experiences that led to her understanding of oppression and intersectionality. Moraga recognizes the privilege she had by being “‘la güera:’ fair-skinned,” meaning that she was “born with the features of [her] Chicana mother, but the skin of [her] Anglo ...
23 Σεπ 2017 · Cherrie Moraga is a Chicana, feminist writer and activist who wrote the article La Guera (The White Girl). The article discusses her experience having the privilege to grow up as a light-skinned Chicana, while also addressing the fact that she was still oppressed because of her sexual preference.
the oppression. The danger lies in attempting to deal with oppression purely from a theoretical base. Without an emotional, heartfelt grappling with the source of our own oppression, without naming the enemy within ourselves and outside of us, no authentic, non-hierarch-ical connection among oppressed groups can take place.
Originally from San Gabriel, California, Cherríe Moraga is the co-editor of This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color with Gloria Anzaldúa. She is a Professor of English at UC Santa Barbara, where she co-directs Las Maestras Center for Xicana Indigenous Thought & Art Practice.
26 Μαΐ 2016 · Moraga shared that she was deeply inspired by her mother, a poor Native American woman who dropped out of high school to care for her younger siblings. She saw that her mother suffered from compounded sources of oppression: being Native, being poor, being uneducated, being a woman.
15 Σεπ 2020 · This essay focuses on the affective and political function of the Chicana memoir, particularly Cherríe Moraga’s Native Country of the Heart (2019). I explore how the emotions evoked by such a memoir aid in resisting dominant narratives of oppression.
