Seeking a Mexicana/MestizaFootnote¹

1. Mestiza/o and the colloquial Mexicana/o gives name to a racialized, hyphenated ethnic identity, born on both sides of the US–Mexico border (Villenas, Citation2006), the mixture of indigenous, Spanish, and African ancestry resulting from Spain’s sixteenth-century conquest of Mexico and the Southwest (Acuña Citation1988; Anzaldúa Citation1987; Córdova, Citation1994; Gomez Citation2008; Menchaca Citation1999). I privilege these terms as they transcend ethnic lines, nationality, geography, and political borders (Delgado Bernal Citation2006; Valenzuela Citation1999).

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