formlessbeing 's review for:

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria E. Anzaldúa

2.0

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ok lemme get into this. anzaldúa has made significant contributions toward postcolonial and feminist theory as a xicana lesbian BUT her advocacy for the mestizaje and the mestiza identity is rooted in antiblackness and does little to challenge constructed notions of ethnicity, gender, and race. i enjoyed the parts of her talking about language because that was one of my first postcolonial texts. however, i think that any text relying on antiblack race theory and the gender binary should be parsed through carefully and critiqued thoroughly. there are other xicanx writers who have significantly contributed to postcolonial and feminist canon i.e. perez, trevino, trujillo.