The featured book for Latinx/e Heritage Month is Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa. It’s an absolute classic: beautifully written and addresses intersectionality long before the term was in the public discourse.
Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa’s experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the groundbreaking essays and poems in this volume profoundly challenged how we think about identity. Borderlands/La Frontera remapped our understanding of what a “border” is, seeing it not as a simple divide between here and there, us and them, but as a psychic, social, and cultural terrain that we inhabit, and that inhabits all of us. This 20th-anniversary edition features new commentaries from prominent activists, artists, and teachers on the legacy of Anzaldúa’s visionary work. (from the publisher)
If it’s checked out of Northwestern’s library, Chicago Public Library still has many copies available.
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