Abstract

From the perspective of decolonial feminism and the coloniality of gender, in Spanglish, I develop an analysis of the Latinx woman as a racial and gender category of modernity/coloniality. My analysis unfolds through a narrative on my experiences as a Colombian immigrant, Spanglish speaker, and family therapist in academia in the United States. I am guided by an ethic of liberation and the central inquiries for decolonial feminists that contest bourgeois, White, and heterosexual feminism’s universal conception of the woman when exploring its European invention and purpose. I discuss modernity’s imposition of gender as a Eurocentric colonial system of oppression, inseparable from race and class. I provide a conceptual framework for my analysis that includes an overview of ethics of liberation; decolonial linguistic considerations responding to Anglo, White feminism in untranslatable Spanglish; discussion on decolonial and postcolonial analysis of the Latinx category; and key concepts of decolonial feminism and the coloniality of gender. I seek to make visible the operations of colonial power implicated in the Eurocentric, racialized, gendered, and classist configuration of the Latinx and the woman, to detach from it, and to consider other possibilities of existence.

摘要

从去殖民女权主义和性别殖民性的角度，我在西班牙文中将拉丁裔女性分析为现代性/殖民性的种族和性别类别。我的分析通过叙述我作为哥伦比亚移民、西班牙语演讲者和美国学术界的家庭治疗师的经历展开。在探索欧洲的发明和目的时，我以解放伦理和对去殖民主义女权主义者的核心调查为指导，这些调查与资产阶级、白人和异性恋女权主义对女性的普遍概念提出质疑。我将现代性对性别的强加讨论为一种以欧洲为中心的殖民压迫制度，与种族和阶级密不可分。我为我的分析提供了一个概念框架，其中包括对解放伦理的概述；非殖民主义语言考量以无法翻译的西班牙文回应盎格鲁、白人女权主义；关于拉丁语类别的去殖民和后殖民分析的讨论；以及去殖民主义女权主义和性别殖民性的关键概念。我试图让殖民权力的运作与拉丁裔和女性的欧洲中心化、种族化、性别化和阶级主义结构有关，脱离它，并考虑其他存在的可能性。