  Racialized women in Latin America and the Caribbean have also pointed to the racism of dominant feminist methodology that took womanhood to be a shared categorical status but dismissed the importance of the specificities determined by race/ethnicity and class identity. In so doing, the voices of racialized women have opened up new avenues for contemporary critical feminist investigation. For instance, Afro-descended women have shown how the methodologies of studying women from colonial times detrimentally read the lives of enslaved women one-dimensionally as solely victims of slavery, overlooking the ways in which many participated in acts of resistance. Acts like the waste of household goods or self-induced abortions to avoid the enslavement of children are best understood as acts of domestic marronage and need to be read as part of the history of Afro-descended women in the Americas (Albert 2003). In this context, the call for a more multidimensional analysis of racialized women also entails demonstrating that for racialized women, the public and the private spheres are not separate entities as hegemonic feminism purported (Curiel 2016: 49). Hence, a call for the blackening of feminism has emerged as a way of elucidating the relationship between racism and sexism in order to better understand the histories of women throughout the Americas (Carneiro 2005).