I’d
like to begin my paper be referring to something that was said in a previous
class that’s been stuck in the back of my mind ever since. I think it was in the class where we discussed
foregrounding and the topic the dynamic between race issues and gender issues
came up. Someone said that they couldn’t,
as a woman of color, focus on both at the same time, and that usually race
issues came first and feminism faded to the background.