"Being a Chicana is a political, societal, economic and spiritual stance for me because I identify myself with the struggle of Chicanos in this marginal border world of identity—straddling different worlds, the world of the raices in Mexico, the roots, and also the contemporary world of the United States…"
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On identifying as a Chicana in “AN INTERVIEW WITH DENISE CHAVEZ” in Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies (1994)
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