Dubois 'Los Chicanos' Ethnic Identity
"Los Chicanos" ethnic identity is described as a mix between two backgrounds: Spanish of the Mexicans and on the sounds of the the Anglos' incessant. This is similar to DuBois concept of Blackness because Anzaldua was pressured into shedding her cultural values during the migration to the states. The similarity between the two can be understood with the contending images of blackness–those images produced by a racist white American culture, and those images maintained by African American individuals, within African American communities. Both are being forced by the whites to alter themselves to fit the “mold” that they want them to maintain. Anzaldua connects language to race because she says that she is a woman with many cultural backgrounds