Gloria Anzaldúa Chcano Culture Analysis

When comparing Charles Tatum’s and Gloria Anzaldúa’s narrations of Chicano discriminated history, they both have viewpoints that are essential for the audience to know and possess different viewpoints that need to be understood. Tatum narrates Chicanos inequities in his viewpoint in 3rd person while Anzaldúa experienced the cruel treatment in first person point of view. After analyzing both texts, I found some important topics that need to be shared with the audience and why it’s currently not taught in U.S. schools as history. In the Study of Popular Culture, Tatum (2001) says “Mexican Americans are but one of the several minorities in the United States to be denied of their civil and constitutional rights” (p. 13). As early in the nineteenth

She successfully describes the “New Mestiza” by first analyzing herself, her dialect, and the U.S. country, and then discusses how there are psychologic boundaries on Chicanos through the symbolism she uses when she talks about physical borderlands. She claims the original inhabitants of what is now the U.S., were in fact the ancient Indian ancestors of Chicanos and Anglos were the ones who illegally migrated to the lands long before they started making assumptions that Chicanos were aliens of the country. She then descriptively states how the Mexican-American War had resulted in Americans taking their land and turned them from domestic owners to foreigners overnight: Anzaldúa (1987,1999) declares, “In 1846, the U.S. incited Mexico to war. U.S. troops invaded and occupied Mexico, forcing her to give up almost half of her nation, what is now Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and California” (p. 29). Consequently, in the nineteenth century, powerful landowners partnered with U.S. colonizing companies dispossessed millions of Indians from their land, many leaving to Mexico for terrorism that Anglos

Tatum and Anzaldúa insight the U.S. and Mexico war resulted in Mexico’s northern territories being taken, and racially mistreated Chicanos because the treaties affirmed their equality as citizens but weren’t acted upon. Another similar issue discussed was the Anglos lynching Mexican Americans due to the protests on insists for land ownership, but were discriminated unfairly by ignoring their pleas and even penalized for their resistance. Nonetheless, Tatum views Chicano history as a spectator and states the facts more clearly on what events took place that led to their discrimination and how they gradually gained equality as citizens in the U.S. Although, Anzaldúa provides her own thoughts and expresses herself through the text to emphasize her character as a Mexican, that she is strongly supportive for her