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Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies

Winona State University

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2023

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Political Discourse On Women Of Color, Briel Thelen Apr 2023

Political Discourse On Women Of Color, Briel Thelen

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In the last 50 years political discourse that surrounds women of color (WOC) has changed in numerous ways. There has been an at times slow and at other times fast rise in the assertion that WOC in political movements are radical and even dangerous, and that their stances threaten American democracy. However, my research will look at how the erasure of contributions and actions of WOC in the past has impacted the direct and focused dialogue of today.

Today, politicians, news outlets, political commentators, and consequently lay American citizens will critique progressive WOC in political movements as more radical than …