change or face oppression. In a time of cultural crisis‚ authors Gloria Anzaldua and Rodolfo Gonzales write pieces to resist assimilation into and oppression by an Anglo-dominant America. Both writers look to the past of Mexican Americans in order to establish cultural unity and validity in a current time of injustice. They examine separate‚ individual cultures that have contributed to the present‚ collective view of identity. Anzaldua and Gonzales include many oppressive and painful historical moments
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Gloria Anzaldúa. “The Homeland‚ Aztlán.” Borderlands - mestizo means genetically equipped to survive small pox - Treaty of Guadalupe hidalgo is the treaty that ended the u.s.-Mexican war‚ signing half of mexico’s land away‚ and displacing 100‚000 Mexican citizens - Culture Clash‚ “In Search of Aztlán”. - The three members go from place to place that has some historical significance looking for their homeland Aztlan - Their final conclusion is that Aztlan is in each one of them it’s how
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place in the world. In her 1987 book‚ Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza she calls it “a consciousness of duality” (Anzaldúa 59)‚ one that welcomes ambiguity and contradiction. Anzaldúa is not just looking at the duality of Spanish and Indigenous or American and Mexican like Gonzáles was. She is writing specifically on the “liminal space” of the Chicana identity. To Anzaldúa‚ someone with “mestiza consciousness” is an individual who is aware of her contradicting identities and uses that awareness
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give no meaning lacking a tomorrow and a today‚” (pg 34) Paulo Freire‚ Pedagogy of the Oppressed. They had been conquered‚ hence‚ intermixed by so many people that their history had been lost‚ and no one was interested in reclaiming it. They had no homeland‚ no defined roots. Being ahistorical means having no agency in other words; you are an object. They had been completely dehumanized‚ for they were no longer seen as people but as objects‚ products that you can use as you please. They had no access
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For example‚ the women in the Brown Berets left because of the inequity they were living and having no voice in the group. They left the group and organized Las Adelitas de Aztlan and focused more on women issues and their health as well as creating one of the currently largest medical centers in the United States known as Altamed. In the Denver Youth Liberation Conference was also a perfect example of inequality of the sexes
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Unity or Diversity Two of the poems which I found myself fascinated with are “Child of the Americas” by Aurora Levins Morales and “To live in the Borderlands means you” by Gloria Anzaldúa. These two poems talk about the pride of each of the author’s cultures and races. The authors do not want to make excuses for being the way they are but want to tell about the pride they feel for being the way they are‚ and they found no way to change themselves but show that history has made them the way they are
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book “Achievement of Desire”‚ addresses his struggles as a young boy‚ trying to adapt to a bilingual education and how that education alienated him from his uneducated Mexican parents. Additionally in the excerpts “How to Tame a Wild Tongue‚” Gloria Anzaldua‚ while she mainly focuses on the language of “Mexican” people in different aspects‚ also mentions her strife as a bilingual student. Although these two stories are different in many ways but they both reflect the negative impact of living in the
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presages powerful cultural changes” (Bhabha 56). These third space sites revolutionized the very idea of “purity” in the way it creates an alternative space for cultural encounters in the same way as borderlands offer a theoretical space for resistance (Anzaldùa 2).” These “in-between” spaces provide the terrain for elaborating strategies of selfhood – singular or communal – that initiate
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unfortunate by-products. The Xicano (Chicano) was able to evolve and retain their cultural identity and ethnicity by creating a border dialect or language (a Patois) which supports the view of the essayist Gloria Anzaldua’s “How to Tame a Wild Tongue.” This dialect is viewed as sub-cultured jargon in their homeland (Mexico) where Standard Mexican Spanish is spoken and the Working Class English is demanded by their adopted host north of the border‚ America. Ultimately‚ the appropriation and assimilation of borderland
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strong bond with my parent’s homeland‚ Mexico‚ has made me realize that I agree with many theory’s that Gloria Anzaldúa‚ author of‚ Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza‚ has defended in her book. Anzaldúa seems to believe that no one should ever be allowed to quiet someone of their native language‚ the way that some Americans prohibit Mexicans to speak Spanish. In addition to that‚ Anzaldúa also takes up time writing about her theory of Mexican women. Anzaldúa believes that Mexican men make
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