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Highlight the theme of rebellion and resistance as an act of preservation. Juana Maria Rodriguez’s, Sexual Features, Queer Gestures, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s, Other Latina Longings, As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance, and Jennifer Nash’s Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality are the pieces to focus on because of the marginalized populations highlighted in these pieces.
Each book tells a story of individuals and their relationship with something intangible yet priceless and intertwined with their identity. The legacy of colonialism almost tried to make it impossible for these groups to hold on to what is important to them and remain untouched by those who do not fully understand or adequately value their intangible item.
Highlight how Black feminists, members of the LGBTQ community, and indigenous groups have resisted pressures from the legacy of colonialism and the structure of academia to preserve what is most important to them.
For Black feminists, intersectionality is held tightly and protected from outsiders; for the LGBTQ community, it is their sexual identity, and for the indigenous communities, it is their freedom.
This should be a very close reading and close engagement with the text.
For each book you must define how the author defines rebellion, how they define resistance and how they define preservation. It has be clear what each group the author centers is resisting against. You must also draw out how each author defines the power they are resisting and rebelling against.
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