In her deeply personal essay, Anzaldúa claims that writing for women of color is one of the few …show more content…
The Chicano movement was a “full-fledged transformation of the way Mexican Americans thought, played politics, and promoted their culture.” (Garcia, 8). It was a “body of ideas, strategies, tactics, and rationalizations that a community uses to respond to external challenges… not so much a singular social process as a coalescing of numerous philosophical and historical currents…” (Garcia, 4). The Chicano movement consisted of four phases; 1) A critique of assimilation in the United States (Garcia, 19) 2) An interpretation of the past, a need for a legacy, and a sense of peoplehood (Garcia, 11-12), 3) An emphasis on celebrating the indigenous past, and an embrace of racial pride (Garcia, 12) 4) Finally, development of parties, platforms, and manifestos (Garcia 12-13). The last phase is important for examining the intersectionality between Chicano activists and Anzaldúa’s third world women writers. The last phase of the Chicano movement led to the development of the Plan Espiritual de Aztlan, a pro-indigenous manifesto that criticized “the brutal “gringo” invasion of (their) territories” and advocated Chicano nationalism and self-determination. They called for a complete reformation of the educational system education relative to their culture, such as proper historical representation of their people and bilingual