![]() ![]() 6Institute for Precision Health, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.5Institute for Society and Genetics, College of Letters and Science, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.4Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, United States.3Diné Policy Institute, Tsaile, AZ, United States.2Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics, Seattle Children’s Hospital and Research Institute, Seattle, WA, United States.1Division of Biomedical Informatics and Personalized Medicine, Colorado Center for Personalized Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, United States.Tags: AnaLouise Keating, Aunt Lute Books, Claire Joysmith, Gloria Anzaldúa, Julia Alvarez, Norma Alarcón, Norma Elia Cantú, Paola Bacchetta, poetry, Rusty Barcelo, Sandra Cisneros, Sonia Saldívar-Hull, T.Katrina G. ![]() Jackie Cuevas, Claire Joysmith, and AnaLouise Keating. Includes an Introduction by Sonia Saldívar-Hull an interview with Gloria Anzaldúa and contributions by Norma Alarcón, Julia Alvarez, Paola Bacchetta, Rusty Barcelo, Norma Elia Cantú, Sandra Cisneros, T. Borderlands/La Frontera remaps understandings 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. 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 challenge how we think about identity. One of Hungry Mind Review’s “Best 100 Books of the 20th Century”.Selected by Utne Reader as part of its “Alternative Canon” in 1998.Chosen one of the “Best Books of 1987” by Library Journal.O'Hearn, Claudine Chiawei O'Hearn, Claudine O’Hearn, Danzy Senna, David Mura, Francisco Goldman, Garrett Hongo, Gish Jen, Indira Ganesan, James McBride, Julia Alvarez, le thi diem thuy, Lori Tsang, Malcolm Gladwell, Meri Nana-Ama Danquah, Nina Mehta, Pantheon, Philippe Wamba, Roxane Farmanfarmaian, Ruben Martinezīorderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (Third Edition) ![]() FOOD AND THE IMMIGRANT by Indira Ganesan.A WHITE WOMAN OF COLOR by Julia Alvarez.LIFE AS AN ALIEN by Meri Nana-Ama Danquah.REFLECTIONS ON MY DAUGHTER by David Mura.THE ROAD FROM BALLYGUNGE by Bharati Mukherjee.THE DOUBLE HELIX by Roxane Farmanfarmaian.Introduction by Claudine Chiawei O’Hearn.And in the process, they map a new ethnic terrain that transcends racial and cultural division. Through the lens of personal experience, they offer a broader spectrum of meaning for race and culture. These eighteen essays, joined by a shared sense of duality, address the difficulties of not fitting into and the benefits of being part of two worlds. ![]() Simple questions like What are you? and Where are you from? aren’t answered-they are discussed. Skin color and place of birth are no longer reliable signifiers of one’s identity or origin. Half + Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and BiculturalĪs we approach the twenty-first century, biracialism and biculturalism are becoming increasingly common. ![]()
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