Through storytelling, I hope to give you more tools for your own liberation.
-- Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez (Introduction)

Importance: In the introduction Rodríguez outlines her inspirations and goals for the text. In this passage, Rodríguez identifies the text as a map that she hopes her readers might use as a tool for self-liberation and for the reclamation of their identities. Rodríguez is simultaneously explaining her reasons for relying upon her own experiences throughout the upcoming chapters. She is contextualizing complex political and societal trends within her own accounts. In this way, she invites the reader into her life and validates her reader's experiences.

But I know that I can begin to heal by naming that anger and finding the true culprit.
-- Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez (chapter 1)

Importance: Throughout the opening chapter "Voluntourism," Rodríguez argues that voluntourism is in fact a form of racial oppression and violence. She confesses that voluntourism and its cultural effects have caused her to...