Talk:Gloria E. Anzaldúa/Archive 1

Raul Salinas
I don't think this is a reference to the right person. Raúl Salinas de Gortari was linked, and this makes doesn't make sense politically or geographically. floh (talk) 06:33, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

"Eight languages"?
The article stated that Anzaldúa writes with a "unique blend of eight languages, two variations of English and six of Spanish." However, linguistically speaking, such "variations" are not distinct languages; they are dialects. I've edited the page to reflect that. 128.223.223.101 (talk) 04:48, 22 April 2014 (UTC)

Borderlands/La Frontera--isn't this her real legacy?
"She is perhaps most famous for coediting This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981) with Cherríe Moraga, editing Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Women of Color (1990), and coediting This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation (2002)."

Really? I'm always hearing references to Borderlands/La Frontera, but didn't know how about these coedited books until looking at this page. 98.245.121.56 (talk) 16:37, 13 April 2011 (UTC)


 * I agree--I think Borderlands is her most famous work, although This Bridge... is a close second. Aristophanes 68   (talk)  20:15, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

^^^I concur with this person 100%!, 04 Nov 2012 For Linguistic terrorism I totally agree with Gloria about people who gave up on their native language. SHe felt angry, and I would feel the same way because you should always have strong connections to your culture. She was always criticized by her parents when she spoke improper spanish, something I went through but with arabic. Great editings by the way!! Very interesting information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hamdighanim (talk • contribs) 06:49, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

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Deliberate damage related to Google doodle sending people here?
Forgive me - only an occasional contributor - not sure how to report or reverse the damage to this page (likely targeted to coincide w/ Google doodle). Abusive changes are widespread. Juliannechat (talk) 04:54, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

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Image
I'm about to boldly remove the image of her burial site. Someone pointed out that it appears that it was taken just after someone urinated on it, which doesn't seem appropriate to have here, especially on a day when the article is highest traffic. I looked for an alternative but have not found one yet. I don't think this was the fault of the photographer, who uploaded several other perfectly normal images. It's certainly possible it's not what it appears. It's an interesting question of at what point does a negative contextual element of an image outweighh the encyclopedic value. To me, such is the case here, but I don't know if there's precedent for it. &mdash;  Rhododendrites talk  \\ 19:27, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

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Ancestors
Is there additional published information about her family? The few published mentions are of her father Urbano and great-grandfather Urbano. Her grandfather David and grandmother Dolores, great-grandfather Urbano and great-grandmother Victoriana, and great-great-grandfather Juan are all listed as "white" on US censuses. I haven't seen a single male or female ancestor on her father's side who is listed as non-white. Given that both sides of her family owned ranches, were her ancestors slave owners? Maybe not Black slaves, but perhaps Native slaves? They were seemingly land owners and the descendants of prominent Spanish colonizers, so I would be surprised if they hadn't owned Native slaves at some point. But Anzaldúa has also talked about her family being poor and being migrant workers, so I assume that perhaps the family wealth was lost at some point, but I haven't seen anything in writing about that. Anzaldúa's mother Amalia García was the daughter of Rafael García and Ramona Dávila. Ramona is listed as "white" on the US census, as are both of Ramona's parents Vincente and Dolores, but I can't find anything for Rafael García. Anzaldúa's indigenous heritage is unclear. She either had legally white ancestors who were technically mixed/mestizo or maybe Rafael was of indigenous ancestry. It would be cool to find out which Indigenous peoples Gloria E. Anzaldúa has connections to. It would seem that Gloria's socially conservative family identified as white and didn't necessarily even identify as Mexican due their identification with whiteness and Americanness, from reading her essay "La Prieta" which discusses how her family subjected her to colorism/racism because her skin was darker than her light-skinned/white-skinned family members. Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 01:31, 3 October 2021 (UTC)

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