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Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
by Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Anzaldua covers a lot of ground with this book. Her embodiment of the mestiza consciousness and her Borderlands theory both offer an important complication to our more singular understandings of multiculturalism and intersectionality. This was the first Xicanx collection I ever read, and I was happily reminded of other Indigenous texts--Why Indigenous Literatures Matter by Daniel Heath Justice for one. Between Anzaldua's use of feminist, queer, Indigenous and Borderlands theory, it was an incredibly enlightening, if not challenging, read. Her narrative structure of poetry and prose make the text far more dynamic than your average essay collection. While I did frequently reference a Spanish-English dictionary, the work proved worthwhile in the end.