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The Homeland, Aztlán: El Otro México by Gloria Anzaldúa

The Homeland, Aztlán: El Otro México by Gloria Anzaldúa . What does la frontera /the border mean? . US-Mexican Border. 1,950 mile-long open wound dividing a pueblo , a culture, running own the length of my body, staking fence rods in my flesh, splits me splits me me raja me raja

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The Homeland, Aztlán: El Otro México by Gloria Anzaldúa

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  1. The Homeland, Aztlán: El Otro Méxicoby Gloria Anzaldúa

  2. What does la frontera/the border mean?

  3. US-Mexican Border 1,950 mile-long open wound dividing a pueblo, a culture, running own the length of my body, staking fence rods in my flesh, splits me splits me me raja me raja this is my home this thin edge of barbwire.

  4. Border Culture Who are los atravesados? Why do they live here and why are they not wanted?

  5. Pre-Columbian America: A Legacy of Migration

  6. The Colonial Project

  7. El Siglo XX “The Gringo, locked into the fiction of white superiority, seized complete political power, stripping Indians and Mexicans of their land while their feet were still rooted in it. Con el destierro y el exilio fuimos desuñados, destroncados, destripados—we were jerked out by the roots, truncated, disemboweled, dispossessed, and separated from our identity and our history.” (p. 30)

  8. What purpose/legacy has the border served since 1519? 1848?

  9. The Homeland, El Otro Aztlán “We have a tradition of migration, a tradition of long walks. Today we are witnessing la migración de los pueblos mexicanos, the return odyssey to the historical/mythological Aztlán. This time, the traffic is from south to north...The convergence has created a shock culture, a border culture, a third country, a closed country.” (p. 33)

  10. Critical Questions How is the border the home for the people of Aztlán? How are Chicanos originally and secondarily Indigenous to the Southwest? What does it mean to exist in the borderlands?

  11. Re-cap of Today’s Objectives • Identify the border and its implications to family, economy, and our understanding of power relations. • Grasp an overview to major course themes: Pre Columbian civilization, The Colonial Project, and 20th century institutionalized discrimination. • Comprehend how the Chicana/o lens offers critical insight to the formation of citizenship and nationhood.

  12. Works Cited • Borderbeach: A View of the Pacific Ocean from the Mexican side of the US border. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US-Mexico_Fence_Mexican_family_on_US_side.jpg • Border culture: Woman selling hand-made commodities from the Mexican side to a tourist. http://www.equilibriointernacional.com/2011/12/la-frontera-entre-estados-unidos-y.html • Los Atravesados: Family members are allowed to reunite with loved ones in Mexico at Friendship Park, San Diego CA under the supervision of Border Patrol Agents. http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/P8641ed4Dbq/Families+Reunite+Mexico+Border+Fence/vNbkQ3x1i3g • US map of land acquisitions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historic_regions_of_the_United_States • Tenochtlnan, Lake Texcoco and environs: http://www.mexicolore.co.uk/aztecs/home/aztecs-have-been-called-many-things • New Spain, 1519 cartography: http://cubelranch.com/images/1519-1521NewSpain-XI.jpg • Bracero Program Ad’s: http://todaysinsightnews.blogspot.com/2013/03/no-more-bracero-program-no-more.html & http://ows.edb.utexas.edu/site/bracero-program/bracero-articles • Maquiladoras: http://www.cfomaquiladoras.org/maquilaworkerscelebratevictory.en.html & http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1525429.stm • Border Patrol: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/03/02/illegal_immigrants_are_leaving_arizona/ & http://www.gopusa.com/freshink/2012/07/12/border-patrol/

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