Chicana feminism
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Chicana feminism is a sociopolitical movement, theory, and praxis that scrutinizes the historical, cultural, spiritual, educational, and economic intersections impacting Chicanas and the Chicana/o com
Las Chicanas Poster at LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes
Mexican children in a segregated company housing facility in Corcoran, California (1940)
Mendez v. Westminster (1947) overturned de jure racial segregation in schools. The case was initiated when Sylvia Mendez (pictured) was turned away from enrolling at a "white school." Mexican American children, especially of darker skin, were only permitted to learn manual skills education, while white schools taught academic preparation. At the "Mexican schools," girls were only taught sewing and homemaking.
A young woman talking with a group of young men in El Segundo Barrio, El Paso (1971)
Gloria Anzaldúa
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Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa was an American philosopher and scholar of Chicana feminism, cultural theory, and queer theory. She loosely based her best-known book, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mesti
Anzaldúa in 1990
