Salt Of The Earth Analysis

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Throughout this class, one thing Bettina taught me has stuck with me the whole time: the personal is political. Throughout every lesson, every essay, I felt this. I love how personal feminism is, every issue speaks to me personally, and I am encouraged to be angry, enraged, emotions so often not allowed to be felt by women. A point Adiche brings up speaking of her American friend who let her resentments simmer in the workplace.
I learned how issues of people with intersecting identities need an intersectional solution. The movie Salt of the Earth provided me with a wonderful example of this. The women had to first overcome the oppressions they faced as women before dealing with the oppressions they faced as Latinx people.
I also learned much more about institutionalized Racism in America. Of course I knew racism was alive and well in America, but I had no idea just how deeply ingrained it was in ur history, and beyond that how much it is still engrained in our culture and government today. Salt of the Earth was one historical movement I had no awareness of. Rape is another …show more content…

The importance of intersectional solutions for people with intersecting systems of domination. She showed us time and time again how people have struggle, but triumphed in feminist issues using determination, by not giving up, by fighting for what's right. I showed up to class Thursday after the election feeling hopeless, this was my first election, and I was so involved in it, I managed to convince at least one person to vote for Bernie and Hilary when they wouldn’t have otherwise voted. I argued my heart out on facebook, and the election results managed to knock the wind out of me and my peers. I felt wronged when I came to Bettina’s lecture that day, but she inspired me to not fill myself with hopelessness, but with anger, and to use that anger, to harness it and to keep

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