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
Chicano or Chicana or Chicane is an ethnic identity for Mexican Americans that emerged from the Chicano Movement.
A "Chicano Power!" by M.E.Ch.A. CSULA is held up in a crowd (2006).
"Chicana by luck, proud by choice" at 2019 Women's March, Los Angeles
Chicano may derive from the Mexica people, originally pronounced Meh-Shee-Ka.
Frank H. Tellez, a Pachuco youth, wears a zoot suit while arrested in the Zoot Suit Riots. Pachucos were the first to reclaim the word Chicano as a form of pride.