Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa is a book overflowing with challenging questions and thoughts about cultures and how they interact to shape a person. Throughout the book, Anzaldúa shares her own experiences and relates them to universal problems with sexism, racism and other forms of belittling people and their sense of self. She speaks of a borderland, very much a physical one but even more so a cultural and spiritual one that forces those who are different to feel alienated from their own culture.
In the first chapter of the book, Anzaldúa writes of her home and how it was created and molded by each generation to become the place she knows. After the Mexican-American war and much of the land of Mexico was taken
In the first chapter of the book, Anzaldúa writes of her home and how it was created and molded by each generation to become the place she knows. After the Mexican-American war and much of the land of Mexico was taken