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Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Born

in Rio Grande Valley, Texas, The United States

September 26, 1942

Died

May 15, 2004

Website

https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utlac/00189/...

Genre

Gay & Lesbian, Religion & Spirituality, Politics

Influences

Movimiento Chicana/o, Queer Liberation

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Gloria E. Anzaldúa was a scholar of Chicana cultural theory, feminist theory, and queer theory. She loosely based her best-known book, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, on her life growing up on the Mexican-Texas border and incorporated her lifelong feelings of social and cultural marginalization into her work.

When she was eleven, her family relocated to Hargill, Texas. Despite feeling discriminated against as a sixth-generation Tejana and as a female, and despite the death of her father from a car accident when she was fourteen, Anzaldúa still obtained her college education. In 1968, she received a B.A. in English, Art, and Secondary Education from Pan American University, and an M.A. in English and Education from the University of ...more

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Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s books

Average rating: 4.4 · 25,012 ratings · 1,235 reviews · 38 distinct works • Similar authors

	Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Sonia Saldívar-Hull (Introduction) 4.33 avg rating — 12,546 ratings — published 1987 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives of Feminists of Color 4.39 avg rating — 1,034 ratings — published 1990 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation by Gloria E. Anzaldúa (Editor), AnaLouise Keating (Editor) 4.32 avg rating — 588 ratings — published 2002 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality by Gloria E. Anzaldúa, AnaLouise Keating (Editor) 4.57 avg rating — 348 ratings — published 2015 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader by Gloria E. Anzaldúa, AnaLouise Keating (Editor) 4.52 avg rating — 254 ratings — published 2009 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prietita and the Ghost Woman/Prietita y la llorona by Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Maya Christina González (Illustrator), Maya Gonzalez (Goodreads Author) 4.22 avg rating — 191 ratings — published 1996 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Friends from the Other Side / Amigos del otro lado by Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Harriet Rohmer (Editor) 3.71 avg rating — 179 ratings — published 1993 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How To Tame a Wild Tongue 4.13 avg rating — 158 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Interviews/Entrevistas by Gloria E. Anzaldúa, AnaLouise Keating (Editor) 4.40 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 2000 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chicanas deslenguadas: vivir en la frontera 4.47 avg rating — 19 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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