Chicana


Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
The House on Mango Street
Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color
Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma
Caramelo
Gods of Jade and Shadow
De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century
The House of Broken Angels
Black Dove: Mamá, Mi'jo, and Me
The Mixquiahuala Letters
Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa
Under the Feet of Jesus
So Far from God
Mother Tongue
The Kaleidoscope by Adrian MendozaEl Teatro de los Monstruos by Viviana CorderoPedro Páramo by Juan RulfoThe House on Mango Street by Sandra CisnerosMemories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel García Márquez
Hispanic Lit
62 books — 45 voters
Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria E. AnzaldúaJuliet Takes a Breath by Gabby RiveraChicana Lesbians by Carla TrujilloGulf Dreams by Emma PérezThe Last Generation by Cherríe L. Moraga
Chicana/Latina Lesbian Books
87 books — 36 voters

The Color Purple by Alice WalkerGiovanni’s Room by James BaldwinZami by Audre LordeAristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire SáenzSister Outsider by Audre Lorde
Books by LGBTQ People of Color
509 books — 147 voters
Dona Cleanwell Leaves Home by Ana CastilloCaramelo by Sandra CisnerosBlack Dove by Ana CastilloThe House on Mango Street by Sandra CisnerosGoddess of the Americas / La Diosa de Las Americas by Ana Castillo
Chicana Authors
12 books — 2 voters

Gloria E. Anzaldúa
We’re afraid the others will think we’re agringadas because we don’t speak Chicano Spanish. We oppress each other trying to out-Chicano each other, vying to be “real” Chicanas, to speak like Chicanos. There is no one Chicano language just as there is no one Chicano experience.
Gloria Anzaldúa

1980s feminism focused on questions of difference and making the category of women more inclusive
Cristina Beltrán, The Trouble with Unity: Latino Politics and the Creation of Identity

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