The indigenous women from Oaxaca in the power of resistance: A draft in the social

Abstract

This article is an historical and cultural approximation based on the teachings of native women in their struggle for social and legal recognition in Oaxaca. In parallel to the literary inheritance of the ‘Chicana’ women, the Afro-American and American-Indian women of the book Otras inapropiables. Feminismos desde la frontera, I include the voices of women and other indigenous from Oaxaca who were part of in the process of transgression of moral norms and cultures in the various spaces of power. The women interviewed share their reflexions on how they have lived, felt and experienced sexism, classism, discrimination and racism during the last four decades in the socio-historical process. They appeal to the creation of multiple citizenships, a power form of resistance in the current context of the global economy. Finally, I will try to respond to what are the political effects of the current reconfiguration of the multicultural neoliberal State of Oaxaca; as well as the violence that it generates for the indigenous people’s struggle.