Abstract

This important book explores how women of different ethnic/racial groups conceive of feminism. For Aida Hurtado, subordination and privilege must be conceived as relational in nature, and gender subordination and political solidarity must be examined in the framework of culture and socioeconomic context. Hurtado's analysis of gender oppression is written from an interdisciplinary, multicultural standpoint and is enriched by selections from poems by Sandra Cisneros, Lorna Dee Cervantes, and Elba Sanchez, and from plays by El Teatro Campesino, the United Farm Workers theater groups. Aida Hurtado urges us to think deeply and creatively about the current possibilities of cross-racial feminist activism.... The Color of Privilege offers valuable analytical and organizing strategies to scholars and activitists alike. -- Angela Davis (Hurtado's) brilliant self-consciously cross-disciplinary Chicana critique adds to our understanding of subordination and its implications for a multicultural feminism and for political mobilization. A heart-felt yes yes yes to this very worth-your-reading text. -- Gloria E. Anzaldua.