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HumanitiesEthnic StudiesReligious StudiesChicana StudiesChicano StudiesWomen's StudiesChicana Feminist TheoryChicano FeminismChicano Gender StudiesGender In Postcolonial ContextsPostcolonial FeminismWitchcraft BeliefsChicana Feminist StandpointLatina FeminismLatina Feminist TheoryWitchcraft In Colonial Contexts
counterparts throughout the Christian world, were suspected of being witches on the basis of gender, but women of colonized groups were suspect on multiple grounds. Indian women, African-origin women, and racially mixed women—whether Indo-mestiza or Afro-mestiza—were suspect by virtue of being female, by virtue of deriving from non-Christian, or diabolic religions and cultures, and by virtue of being colonized or enslaved people who might rebel and use their alleged magical power at any moment.