<P> Twenty - five years after its original publishing date, Borderlands / La Frontera was among one of the books banned by the Tucson Unified School System in Arizona when enforcing a new law that prohibited the teaching of Mexican - American studies in the public school system . HB 2281's main purpose was to prohibit school districts or other educational institutions from including any courses / classes that promote resentment towards any race or class and many other provisions that target the Mexican - American studies programs that were already in existence . </P> <P> Borderlands provided a unique look at the expansion of physical borders into one's being and mind . Anzaldúa referenced the borders that form around gender and queer identities as well as the psychological impacts of border policing and racialized violence . </P> <P> Gloria Anzaldua is a Multi-Identity Chicana Feminist writer, born in Rio Grande Valley of South Texas in September 26, 1942 . Her parents were farm workers and Gloria grew up in a ranch . In 1969 Anzaldua received her bachelor's degree in English from the University of Texas - Pan American . From there she went onto a master's program at the University of Texas - Austin and graduated with her master's in English and Education in 1972 . During the 1980s Gloria started writing, teaching, and traveling to workshops on Chicanas . Sadly, on May 15, 2004 Gloria Anzaldua died of diabetes complications . Gloria Anzaldua won the following awards:' ' Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award' ' (1986),' ' Lambda Lesbian Small Book Press Award' ' (1991),' ' Lesbian Rights Award' ' (1991),' ' Sappho Award Distinction' ' (1992),' ' National Endowment for the Arts Fiction Award' ' (1991),' ' American Studies Association Lifetime Achievement Award' ' (2001),' ' LGBT 31 History Icons' ' (2012). </P> <P> El otro Mexico que aca hemos construido, el espacio es lo que ha sido territorio nacional . Este el efuerzo de todos nuestros hermanos y latinoamericanos que han sabido progressar . </P>

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