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The Rio Grande Valley is an agricultural region now located at the southernmost tip of Texas and the eastern reaches of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. Gloria Anzaldúa’s family has lived there and farmed the land for at least generations, since long before it was part of the U.S. However, Anglo settlers swindled them out of their land—as they did to much of the local Tejano population.
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Rio Grande Valley Term Timeline in Borderlands / La Frontera
The timeline below shows where the term Rio Grande Valley appears in Borderlands / La Frontera. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Part 1, Section 2: Movimientos de rebeldía y las culturas que traicionan
...that she was the only person in six generations of her family who left the Rio Grande Valley . Perhaps this is because she has always been stubborn and rebellious.
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Part 1, Section 7: La conciencia de la mestiza / Towards a New Consciousness
...the modest houses with chicken and goats, the cemeteries and cornfields and home-cooked flavors. The Rio Grande Valley is one of the US’s poorest places, and after centuries of conflict and bloodshed, it...
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Part 2, Section 1: Más antes en los ranchos
Nopalitos. It’s evening in the Rio Grande Valley . Dogs lay in the yard and a neighbor cooks menudo while Anzaldúa picks a...
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Part 2, Section 2: La pérdida
...who look empty and defeated. The narrator reveals that she is a Chicana from the Rio Grande Valley now teaching in Muncie, Indiana. She has come to repair a ditch on the farm...
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One of the students’ fathers, who is also a Chicano from the Rio Grande Valley , tells the narrator of “El sonavabitche” that the men are undocumented and the brutal...
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