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In Yo Soy Teresa La Fea the story of Teresa and her whole family fighting for having a child illuminates the ways institutions in this case medical institutions embody and reproduce oppression which is later internalized by the subordinated group itself. Racism and ranking of people based on skin color is embraced by the medical institution of Dr. Hidalgo and Dr. Castro: Most of the egg donors are light-skinned as it is widely believed that there should a shared preference for whiter babies. It was unusual for Dr. Castro that Teresa was concerned with the lighter skin color of her egg donor as “all the couple should want babies with Anglo-Saxon tendencies”. However, what is the most striking in this story is the way the medical institution
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