Cruces de Frontera En Busca d'ldentidades: The Women Speak

The objective of this study was to discover how we as meXican women, a\ud hybrid of Mexican and Xicana, construct our identity. I collected personal narratives\ud because past literature has presented identity as a binary process, focused solely upon\ud either the Mexicana or Xicana experience. Three qualitative approaches were used for\ud this study: auto-ethnography, in-depth interviewing, and storytelling. These methods\ud were purposefully employed because they follow from a critical race and Xicana\ud feminist standpoint as a methodology that allowed the personal narrative to take\ud center stage as a means of resistance! The results of this study indicate that for the\ud meXicana woman the matrix of oppression plays a crucial role in how she has created\ud her identity. The construction of the meXicana identity embodies multiple\ud interactions with different systems of inequalities such as race, class, gender,\ud citizenship, and global capitalism where she is able to find ways of negotiating and\ud socially situating her hybrid identity to create a better outcome as a means of being\ud able to fly about, though in her "cage."Sociological Practic