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work_pehhp6wdyjdothmvsy4tr3orty	Jeanette Rodriguez	Mestiza Spirituality: Community, Ritual, and Justice	2004	23	.pdf	application/pdf	10338	651	55	Within this article, I seek to explore an understanding of mestiza spirituality and its relationship to ritual, community, and Critical to understanding the mestiza's worldview is oppositional consciousness that includes the access and filtering of a myriad of values, ritual, and community justice is the basis of spirituality for the mestiza. mestiza identity, coupled with ritual knowledge within the context of community, leads significantly to a commitment to justice. Thus Anzaldúa brings to this argument the formative process that constitutes the essential elements of Latino/a community: language, history, religio-cultural practices. of what she calls the "methodology of the oppressed." Key elements include: engagement with multiple identities, resistance to the dominant culture group, and marginalization. As a woman of color, a Chicana/Latina mestiza's identity is a fragmented self as more than one identity makes a claim on her subjectivity, for example, her race, class, gender, the 39 (69%) participate in cultural/communal rituals: Dia de los Muertos,	./cache/work_pehhp6wdyjdothmvsy4tr3orty.pdf	./txt/work_pehhp6wdyjdothmvsy4tr3orty.txt