Indigenous women are already invisible. Let's not continue to erase reality because of something some white man said (and was wrong about).
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That doesn't take away that Clara de la Rocha fought in the Mexican Revolution. But it's not like she was indigenous. She was no peasant.
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@Pochdigeno, who tweeted at me that they're a geneticist, implying that Clara de la Rocha was indigenous. Right. -
Clara de la Rocha's family was so rich they filled and entire library with gold and silver. Revolution, tho. Tuh.pic.twitter.com/sx3KHODBWY
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Where did all that gold and silver come from? From the same indigenous peoples who were killed and displaced. Resources. Land. Life.
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@UnsettledCity's viral FB post is about a Mexican revolutionary woman. A *very* rich woman who's European family settled northern Mexico. -
Lost in all of that? Hopi women. Hopi girls. Erased in preference for a tidy narrative about revolution... that lacks nuance.
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I'll add one more thing and get back to my Saturday: Clara de la Rocha does not represent all Mexican revolutionary women, of course.
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There were lots of indigenous women who were part of the Mexican Revolution. But different women fought for different things. Again: nuance.
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this is a doozy of a genealogy. lusitanians?!
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