28 - Discussing Anzaldúa w/ Decolonized Buffalo

What is Chicanismo? Is it an ideology? Is it a lived experience? Or is it a simple political categorization? While incorrect, Gloria Anzaldúa's text Borderlands has provided a substantive answer to this question and still has a heavy influence on this day. As an organization that believes in land back and true decolonization, we have felt the need in critiquing Anzaldúa’s text which is characterized by the racist understandings of indigeneity in Jose Vasconcelos’s text, La raza cósmica. In a special collaboration with the Decolonized Buffalo podcast, we critique Anzaldúa's text and how it still plays a big role in the community. For one to strive for collective liberation, one must deconstruct all colonial machinations and the so-called identity of "Chicanismo” must be critically analyzed.

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Outro song: Bad Education - Bardo Martinez and The Soul Investigators

The struggle continues, ¡Venceremos!