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At the very logical core of the movement towards radical in multiculturalism & Women of Color feminisms is a shift from a logic of oppression to a logic of resistance. Radical, structural or polycentric, multiculturalism is a radical response to the Eurocentrism that has accompanied the history of Western colonialism. Colonialism in early & late modernity was constituted both by a Eurocentrist conception of knowledge & culture & by the racialization of labor, of heterosexuality, & of gender. In the development of twentieth century feminism, this connection between gender, class, heterosexuality as racialized was not made explicit. That feminism centered its struggle & its ways of knowing & theorizing against a characterization of women as fragile, weak in both body & mind, secluded in the private, & sexually passive. But it did not bring to consciousness those characteristics only constructed by white bourgeois womanhood. Indeed, beginning from that characterization, white bourgeois feminists theorized white womanhood as if all women were white. The passionate desire to communicate across non-dominant differences that establishes a cross-cultural relationship, in an egalitarian & unprecedented way, between histories that we know are interrelated is fostered by cognitive attitudes that valorize open ended understanding, complexity, & uncertainty. This in multiculturalist position prepares us to bridge the barriers among marginalized resistant knowledges. References. Adapted from the source document.