In her famous essay “A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980′s, ” Donna Haraway proposed the cyborg, “a hybrid of machine and organism,” as a foundation for feminist politics. By basing her cyborg on the model of mestizaje, the phenomenon of racial mixing that took place during the colonial period in the New World, Haraway attempted to bridge a profound gap that had opened in the United States between white and Third World feminism. As she explains, the category woman in previous feminisms “negated all non-white women.” White women “discovered (i.e. were forced kicking and screaming) to notice the non-innocence of the category ‘woman.’” She refers here to a series of contestations by women of color that had challenged the universalist claims of the feminist women of color might be understood as “a cyborg identity, a potent subjectivity synthesized from fusions of outsider identities.”

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