Essay on Anzaldua and the Deconstruction of Her Binaries

Introduction

According to, Anzaldua scope of her writing the Borderland draws a coherent picture of her view in the world of space, theoretical analysis and even far beyond all the binaries, hence regarded the primary foundation of feminist, cultural perspectives and color identity in America (Anzaldua 257). In the book borderland writing, she aims at bringing the wave of transition the targeted party lives. In her book the Frontier and through the concepts of deconstruction of binary realities, she points at drawing a clear picture for the readers to understand what does it means to live in white man's soil when you are black. Therefore, she is focusing much on all living experience of those people who live, and they have frequently been moving in borders (Anzaldua 257).

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Through her concepts of binary deconstruction, Alnzadua exposes the lope poles between the blacks and the whites in the region. For instance, in her book, there is this powerful statement which gives us the clear picture of how color was an essential factor during those days. Therefore in her book, she argued that "we count the days, weeks, years and the centuries until when we will say that the whites laws, customs, and commerce will rot in the deserts they have created, lie bleached..... We, the mestizos we will remain (Anzaldua 257)." In this quotation, Anzaldua decided to use the word bleached as a way of empowering the mestizos and show them that, these branded identities which put in the society; at last, they will be void. She goes ahead and explains the act of resistance and assimilation which is being imposed on them by the whites through their thinking perspectives. To whites was a way of ensuring that; they have entirely dominated the non-whites destiny (Anzaldua 257). Thus, Anzadalua, tells her story of how assimilation language dialect resulted to shame in her life. Having a Chicago dialect, her audiences perceived her as suspicious of her shame and identity disgust. In other words here, she is trying to suggest that they should avoid as much as possible behaviors that that can lead them branded as assimilates. It is because; ethnicity identity goes hand in hand with language identity in white man's soil (Anzaldua 257).

Thus, black men and women are reluctant in making any deals the white for they are afraid of them. As a result, reveals of racial discriminations in the region. However, at some point, I tend to disagree with this idea because most of the blacks are marrying whites as a way of escaping color identity and discrimination in the region. Enabling them, to be able to speak the same language dialect and hence easing the burden of perception among them. However, this strives to show us that, the struggle between the two line of identity, the black or a white which has dramatically depicted a complicated history of status in the region. Therefore, these notions bring out themes of oppression and racial segregation, which are subjected to the blacks (Anzaldua, pg. 258). Nevertheless, as a way of trying to escape from all these problems, blacks are said to have borrowed the concept ideas from the whites. Among the ideas are; to copy them and try as much to be as whites in the region, in other words, to be assimilated.

Work Cited

Anzaldua, G. Borderlands: la Frontera. Vol. 3. San Francisco: Aunt Lute, 1987