![]() Anzaldúa Award for Independent Scholars, are awarded in her name every year. A number of scholarships and book awards, including the Anzaldúa Scholar Activist Award and the Gloria E. Gloria was also posthumously awarded her doctoral degree in literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Anzaldúa passed away in 2004 and was honored around the world for shedding visionary light on the Chicana experience by receiving the National Association for Chicano Studies Scholar Award in 2005. She taught creative writing, Chicano studies, and feminist studies at University of Texas, San Francisco State University, Vermont College of Norwich University, and University of California Santa Cruz. She was the editor of the critical anthology MAKING FACE, MAKING SOUL/HACIENDO CARAS: CREATIVE AND CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES BY FEMINISTS OF COLOR (Aunt Lute Books, 1990), co-editor of This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, and winner of the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award. and Mexico to offer historically-informed, innovative perspectives on identity, geography, language, nationalism, spirituality, and much more. ![]() Gloria Anzaldúa was a Chicana-tejana-lesbian-feminist poet, theorist, and fiction writer from south Texas. In her most widely acclaimed book, Anzalda draws on her experiences growing up on the tejas border between the U.S. ![]()
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