urn:taro:utexas.blac.00189.00189p1 Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa Papers, 1942-2004 Olga Herrera, Christian Kelleher, and Ancelyn Krivak, Benson Latin American Collection, with contributions from the Anzaldúa Literary Trust University of Texas Libraries, 2006 Finding aid encoded by Olga Herrera, Jennifer Najera, Christian Kelleher, and Ancelyn Krivak 2006Finding aid written inEnglish. Descriptive Summary Anzaldúa, Gloria Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa Papers, Part 1 1942-2004 English and Spanish 2005-31 108 linear feet Benson Latin American Collection, The University of Texas at Austin The personal papers of Chicana theorist and feminist Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa, author of Borderlands/La Frontera include correspondence, written works, audio tape interviews, reviews, clippings, photographs, posters, artwork, and collected materials. Biographical Sketch

Internationally recognized cultural theorist, creative writer, and independent scholar Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa was born on September 26, 1942 in Raymondville, Texas, to Urbano and Amalia Anzaldúa. She worked in a wide variety of genres, including poetry, fiction, essays, interviews, anthologies, and children’s books. One of the first openly lesbian Chicana writers, Anzaldúa played a major role in redefining Chicana/o, queer, feminist, and female identities, and in developing inclusionary movements for social justice. Her theories of mestizaje, the borderlands, and the new mestiza, as well as her code-switching, have had an impact far beyond the field of Chicano/a studies. Her insistence on community and coalition-building united feminist concerns with issues of race, gender, class, sexuality, health, and spirituality. Anzaldúa also played a formative role in the development of Queer Theory.

The eldest child of four, Anzaldúa was raised in South Texas. She spent her earliest years on Jesus María, a ranch settlement in the Rio Grande Valley. During this time, her family lived on the various ranches on Jesus María, and one year traveled to West Texas, where they worked as migrant farmers. When she was eleven, the family moved to Hargill, Texas in order to provide the children with greater educational opportunities. Anzaldúa’s intimate knowledge of the South Texas landscape, gained through working on various farms and ranches in order to help with expenses, coupled with her awareness from an early age of the Valley’s legacy of racial discrimination and Tejano land dispossession, influenced her work profoundly. An avid reader as a child, Gloria began experimenting with writing through journal entries, poetry, and short fiction while still in high school. She graduated from Edinburg High School in 1962, and enrolled in Texas Woman’s University that fall. Unable to pay tuition beyond the first year, she withdrew, worked for two years, and began attending Pan-American University, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in English in 1969.

Anzaldúa taught pre-school, special education classes, and high school for several years in the Valley, while also attending summer graduate classes at the University of Texas at Austin, where she earned her master’s degree in English and Education in 1972. She then served as a liaison between migrant camps and school officials in Indiana, and it was during her time there that she began her writing in earnest. In 1974, Anzaldúa decided to return to the University of Texas at Austin to continue her graduate studies at the doctoral level in literature. During these years, Anzaldúa also worked with a variety of political groups, including MECHA, farm worker protests, and feminist organizations and consciousness-raising groups. While at UTA, Anzaldúa taught a course called “La Mujer Chicana” and realized the profound lack of published materials by and about U.S. women of color. This awareness was the first step in her decision to edit the anthology which would later become This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. Resolving to dedicate herself and her life to her writing, she moved to San Francisco, where she juggled a number of temporary jobs in order to devote time to her writing. Two years later, after experiencing discrimination at a writing workshop, Anzaldúa formulated the call for papers for her groundbreaking anthology of women-of-color writing. She had also recently met Cherríe Moraga at a Feminist Writer's Guild meeting held at Old Wives Tales Bookstore; a few months later, she asked Moraga to co-edit the anthology.

The 1980s were a prolific period for Anzaldúa’s poetry and fiction, as she moved from San Francisco to New York and attended various writers’ retreats and workshops. She also began to travel around the country doing her “gigs,” or speaking engagements, as recognition of her work mounted after the release of This Bridge Called My Back. Much of her writing between 1984 to 1986, including a small portion of her extensive poetry and a parts of a manuscript entitled "La serpiente que se come su cola," ultimately found its way into Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, which was published in 1987.

In 1988 Anzaldúa was accepted into the Ph.D. program in literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. While teaching a women’s studies class at UCSC, she assembled a course reader that became the basis for the anthology Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras, published in 1990. In 1991, she began work on her dissertation. Tentatively titled “Lloronas--Women Who Wail: (Self)Representation and the Production of Writing, Knowledge, and Identity,” this dissertation focused on consciousness, writing, knowledge production, identity, resistance and agency, especially as these issues impact Chicana/mestizas and other “post-colonial cultural” women. However, the demands of her professional life as a writer and speaker, together with the diagnosis of Type I diabetes in the early 1990s, compelled her to put aside her graduate work for the time being. During the mid 1990s, she published two children’s books, Friends from the Other Side/Amigos del Otro Lado and Prietita and the Ghost Woman/Prietita y la llorona, and drafted several others. Throughout her life, Anzaldúa gave approximately 100 interviews. Noting that interviews were, like writing, an important part of communicating, she published in 2000 with AnaLouise Keating the collection Interviews/Entrevistas, which included selected interviews from 1982 to 1999. In 2001, Anzaldúa returned to her doctoral work. Rather than continue with the dissertation she had drafted in the early 1990s, she entirely revised her dissertation project, incorporating previously published essays and writing several new chapters. Again collaborating with Keating, she published the highly anticipated anthology, this bridge we call home: radical visions for transformation, in 2002.

Throughout her successful career as a writer, theorist, and activist, Anzaldúa continued to teach, which she loved to do. She taught formally through Vermont College’s Adult Degree Program in the 1980s, several writer-in-residence and visiting professor appointments, and through Women’s Voices, a creative writing workshop at UC Santa Cruz. She also taught and collaborated more informally, organizing writing groups for women of color. Her book on the writing process was one of many projects she was working on when she passed away.

Anzaldúa received many honors and awards during her lifetime, including the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award for This Bridge Called My Back, the Lambda Lesbian Small Book Press Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fiction Award, the Lesbian Rights Award, the Sappho Award of Distinction, and the American Studies Association Lifetime Achievement Award. Borderlands was named one of the 38 best books of 1987 by the Library Journal, and was selected by the Utne Reader for inclusion in their Loose Canon, a list of 150 works that “broaden, deepen, or define the experience of being alive.” The Utne Reader also featured her as one of their Utne Visionaries of 1996. She was awarded her Ph.D. in literature, posthumously, by the University of California Santa Cruz.

Gloria Anzaldúa died on 15 May 2004 at her home in Santa Cruz, California, due to diabetes-related complications.

Works Referenced: Anzaldua, Gloria. Interview with Karin Ikas. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. 1987. By Gloria Anzaldua. 2nd ed. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, 1999. 227-246. - - -. Interviews/Entrevistas. Ed. AnaLouise Keating. New York: Routledge, 2000. - - -. Introduction. Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Women of Color. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Foundation, 1990.. xv-xxviii. Keating, AnaLouise. “Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa.” ColorLines (Fall 2004): 42. Keating, AnaLouise, and Randy Conner. “Rest in Peace, Gloria.” Making Face, Making Soul: a Chicana feminist homepage. 16 Oct. 2004. 30 Aug. 2006. http://gloria.chicanas.com/keatingobit.html.

Photograph by Annie F. Valva.

 Scope and Contents Note

Personal and biographical materials, correspondence, written works, research materials, photographs, audiovisual materials, and artifacts document the life and career of Chicana scholar, writer, teacher, and activist Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa. The papers are arranged following as closely as possible Anzaldúa’s original organization, in nine series: Personal and Biographical, Correspondence, Written Works, Gigs and Teaching, Phone Logs, Calendars and Address Books, Photographs and Audiovisual Materials, Collected Materials, Oversized Materials and Artifacts, and the Gloria Anzaldúa Library. Researchers should note that some materials are temporarily restricted at the request of the Anzaldúa Literary Trust.

Series one, Personal and Biographical, is a small series that contains Anzaldúa’s birth certificate, diplomas and awards, high school and college yearbooks, materials relating to her interest in spirituality and the occult, information relating to diabetes, and a collection of her obituaries, memorials, and tributes. Anzaldúa's personal journals also make up part of this series, but at in keeping with Anzaldúa's wishes they are closed to researchers for a period of 20 years.

Series two, Correspondence, contains letters written to and by Anzaldúa. The files are arranged primarily alphabetically by individual or organization name, though there is a subseries of correspondence arranged by subject, such as her writing and reprint correspondence, or letters relating to projects such as the Mundo Zurdo reading series or the Third World Women Speakers List. Included among the many correspondents are Norma Alarcon, Ruth Behar, Beth Brant, Norma Cantú, Chrystos, Jamie Lee Evans, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, AnaLouise Keating, Cherrie Moraga, Elana Nachman/Dykewomon, Emma Perez, Adrienne Rich, Chela Sandoval, and Luisah Teish, and organizations the National Association of Chicano/Chicana Studies, the Smithsonian Institution, the journal Sinister Wisdom, PEN American Center, and the National Women’s Studies Association. Other noted names present in the collection are Rudolfo Anaya, Joan Baez, Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros, and the White House.

Series three, Written Works, includes manuscripts, production materials, and correspondence relating to Anzaldúa’s poetry, fiction, books, essays, and articles, both published and unpublished. The works are arranged alphabetically by title. Anzaldúa's larger published works--Borderlands/La Frontera, Interviews/Entrevistas, Making Face, Making Soul, This Bridge Called My Back, and this bridge we call home--are listed first. Other works, both published and unpublished, are then listed alphabetically in Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, and Editorial categories. Anzaldúa's dissertation and other graduate student work is next, followed by Writing Notes, Speeches, Interviews, and Works (by others) About Anzaldúa. The section of interviews, an especially rich part of the collection, contains transcripts and other related documentation for some of the many interviews Anzaldúa participate in during her lifetime; copies of interview recordings can be found below in Series 6: Photographs and Audiovisual Materials. At the request of the Anzaldúa Literary Trust some manuscripts in this series are temporarily closed to researchers until publication plans can be finalized.

Series four, Gigs and Teaching, contains correspondence, publicity, administrative materials, and some written works related to her speaking engagements. This series is arranged chronologically. This series also includes material related to Anzaldúa's teaching engagements.

Series five, Phone logs, Calendars, and Address Books, is arranged chronologically within each format of material.

Series six, Photographs and Audiovisual Materials, contains many professional portraits of Anzaldúa, grade- and highschool photographs, as well as black and white and color snapshots, and various photos of other individuals, meetings, or related subjects. Audiotapes include recording of interviews, lectures and readings, tarot and other psychic readings, and other recordings collected by Anzaldúa. A small collection of video recordings consist primarily of Anzaldúa's readings and lectures. This series also includes sketches by Anzaldúa, and some collected artwork by others. The detailed description of this series is located on Part 2 of this guide.

Series seven, Collected Materials, consists of articles and clippings collected by Anzaldúa over the course of her professional career. These are arranged in four sub-series: Subject Files, Reference Files, Course packets, and Clippings. Many are scholarly journal articles that appear to have been used for her graduate studies, and other articles, clipped out of popular magazines and newspapers, are of more general interest. Anzaldúa’s interest in immigration and border issues, feminist studies, human rights, the environment, queer studies, and the occult is reflected in this collection. The Subject Files in particular include a number of original notes written by Anzaldúa. This series also documents the cultural, social, and political climate of the 1980s and 1990s, with clippings on California’s Proposition 187, the controversy over the Columbus quincentennial, the Hopwood vs. Texas anti-affirmative action case, and the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Also included in this series are manuscripts sent to Anzaldúa by friends and professional acquaintances for her feedback. Manuscripts of note include Sandra Cisneros’s "Loose Woman," Ruth Behar’s "Translated Woman," and Norma Alarcon’s essay “Tradditora, Traddutora.” The detailed description of this series is located on Part 2 of this guide.

Series eight, Oversized Materials and Artifacts, contains primarily large format photographs, gig posters, and other posters and artwork, as well as Anzaldúa's collection of t-shirts. The detailed description of this series is located on Part 2 of this guide.

The Benson Collection is also composing a complete bibliographic list of Anzaldúa's personal library of more than 5000 books. This is an ongoing project, and interested researchers should contact the rare books reading room for this information. The list will be located on Part 2 of this guide.

Access Restrictions

Some materials in the Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa Papers are restricted for a period of time due to concerns about privacy and confidentiality, publication rights, and as requested by Ms. Anzaldúa.

 Use Restrictions

The Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa Literary Trust retains full copyright and publication control over all materials written or produced by Gloria Anzaldúa. Some of the material in this collection may not be photocopied, and permission of the Trust is required before publication, in whole or in part, of any materials written or produced by Ms. Anzaldúa.

 Preferred Citation

Cite as: Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa Papers, Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas Libraries, the University of Texas at Austin.

 Index Terms

The Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa Papers are classified under the following Subject Headings in the University of Texas Libraries' catalog:

Anzaldúa, Gloria--Archives Women and literature--United States--History--20th century--Sources Mexican American authors--Sources Mexican Amerian lesbians--Intellectual life--Sources Lesbian feminism--United States--Sources Queer Theory Texas, South--Ethnic relations Mexican-American Border Region--In literature Other Authors Keating, AnaLouise, 1961- Box and Folder Inventory Personal and Biographical, 1942-2004

 1Biographical Information: 11Baptism and Birth certificates (corrected), 1942-1943 [1972] 12Anzaldúa genealogy, 2000 13Biographical Sketches, N.d.

Includes short biographies by Anzaldúa

 14C.V.s and Resumes, N.d. 15Publications Lists, N.d. 16Passport and California driver's license, 1987-1988 17ID cards, miscellaneous, 1973-1976 18Journal Pages, 1968, 1971 19Newspaper clipping, c.1963 110Memorials and tributes, 2004 111Obituaries, 2004 112Hargill Junior High School certificate, 1958 113Edinburg High School yearbook, 1962 114Edinburg High School diploma, 1962 21Pan American College yearbook, 1968 22Pan American College diploma, tassel and graduation program, 1968 23Pharr-San Juan-Alamo High School yearbook, 1971 24University of Texas, "Degrees Awarded," 1972 25College transcripts, 1968-1988 26California Community Colleges, instructor credential, 1988 2Certificates and Awards: 27Various Certificates and Awards, 1993, 2003 28Lesbian Small Press Book Award for Making Face, Making Soul, 1990 31American Studies Association award nomination and acceptance speech, 2001 32American Studies Association Award, 2001 33University of California, Santa Cruz, Rainbow Ceremony certificate (post-humous), June 2004 3Financial Information: 34Finances, miscellaneous, 1985-2004 35Finances, "books sold," notes, 2000, N.d. 3Health and Diet Information: 36Alternative medicine/healing information 37Diabetes tracking logs 38Diabetes general information 41Diabetes general information 42Diabetes information 43Diabetes nutritional information 44Documents from doctors 45Drug-related information 46Handwritten notes 47Nutritional information 48Psychic material (herbs, gems, dreams, etc.) 49Vitamin and health-related information 410Santa Cruz area restaurants 51Cookbook 52Handwritten recipes 53Recipes, Amalia Anzaldúa, 23 May 1996 5Other: 54Astrological and I Ching readings 55Candle affirmations1988-n.d. 56Chinese zodiac information 57Electronic I Ching readings 58Handwriting Analysis 59Hebrew prayer book" 510"My Aztec Birthday" for Hilda and Gloria at the Denver Museum of National History 511Natal chart, Gloria Anzaldúa and Chela Sandoval 512R. Conner tarot cards 513Miscellaneous memorabilia N/AJournals and Scrapbooks¹

¹At the request of author and by agreement with the Anzaldúa Literary Trust, Anzaldúa's personal journals and scrapbooks are closed to researchers for a period of 20 years, until January 2026.

 Correspondence, 1972-2004 6Alphabetical Correspondence: 61125-Ag [various], 1980-2001 62 Aalfs, Janet, 1986-1992 63Al [various], 1982-2002 64 Alarcón, Francisco, 1989-1999 65 Alarcon, Norma, 1983-2003 66 Albrecht, Lisa, 1982-1994 67 Alcoset, Vicki, 1990-2001 68 Allen, Jeffner, 1987-1991 69 Allen, Paula Gunn, 1981 610Am-An [various], 1985-2001 611Anaya, Rudolfo, 1989-1990 612Anzaldúa, Amalia and Hilda Anzaldúa, 1977-2004 613Anzaldúa, Gloria, 1988-1992

Correspondence written by Anzaldúa to multiple or unnamed recipients.

 614Anzaldúa, Urbano, 1941 615Anzaldúa Jr., Urbano and Family, 1984-2001 616Aq-Ar [various], 1983-1997 617Aptheker, Bettina, 1988-2001 71Archer, Nuala, 1988-1995 72As-Az [various], 1983-1990 73Astraea, 1991-1998 74Aunt Lute Books, 1987-2004 75Ba-BBH [various], 1977-2001 76Bambara, Toni Cade, 1981 77Barraza, Santa2001 78Be [various], 1978-2000 79Behar, Ruth, 1990-1995 710Berlowitz, Audrey, 1988-1993 711Bh-Bl [various], 1987-2002 712Blau DuPlessis, Rachel, 1989-1992 713Bo [various], 1992-1998 714Bogomolny, Abby, 1989-2001 715Br [various], 1982-2002 716Brant, Beth, 1982-1990 717Bridges, 1989-1996 718Brava! for Women in the Arts, 1997-2000 719Bruining, Anne Mi Ok Song, 1989-2003 81Bu [various], 1980-1996 8Burke, Ronnie 82 Correspondence1983-2002 83Works A-L, 1980-2002 84Works M-Z, 1975-2001 85Burning Bush Publications, 1996-2000 8 6Ca [various], 1981-2001 87Calk, Mary, 1983-1986 88 Cantú, Norma, 1990-2002 89Carillo, Jo, 1981-1988 810 Castillo, Ana, 1988 9 1Ce-Ch [various], 1980-2001 92El Cenote, 1987-1988 93Chagoya, Aribán, 1983-1990 94Children's Book Press, 1990-2003 95Chinese Students' Letters, 2004 96Christensen, Jon, 1981 97Chrystos, 1982-2002 9 8Ci-Cl [various], 1977-2000 99Cisneros, Sandra, 1989-1993 910 City University of New York, Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies,1992-2001 911Co [various], 1981-2000 912Comadritas - Dissertation Writing Group, 2001-2002 913Conditions Magazine, 1979-1980 10Conner, Randy, David Hatfield Sparks, and Mariah [Mariya] Sparks

¹At the request of the Anzaldúa Literary Trust a portion of this correspondence is currently closed due to privacy concerns.

 101Correspondence, 1975-1989 102Correspondence, 1990-1999 103Correspondence2000-2003 104Works, 1976-1998 105Cr-Cu [various], 1985-1999 106Cruikshank, Peg, 1978-2000 107Czarrunchick, Nicolette, 1988-2000 111Da [various], 1980-1997 112Daniels, Gabrielle, 1982 113De-Di [various], 1988-2003 114Djerassi Resident Artists Program1998-2002 115Do-Du [various]1983-2001 116 Dorsy, Denise1982 117 Doughty, Frances1983-2000 118 Drafts of Letters, 1984-1985 11Dykewomon, Elana: SEE Nachman/Dykewomon, Elana 119Ea-El [various], 1978-2001 1110EMMA Buffalo Women's Bookstore, 1981-1995 1111En-Ey [various], 1988-2001 1112Evans, Jamie Lee1990-1998 121Fa-Fe [various], 1979-1996 122Fi-Fo [various]1972-2001 123Fisher Fishkin, Shelley1989-2000 124Fitzgerald Studio, 1997 125Ford Foundation, 1990 126Foster, Patricia, 1993-1994 127Fr [various], 1990-1998 128Free University, Amsterdam, 1987 129Frontiers, 1990-1998 1210Fu [various], 1977-1996 1211Future is Female, 1981-1985 1212Ga [various], 1983-2003 1213 Gd-Ge [various], 1981-2004 1214Gerbode Foundation, 1992 1215Gi-Gl [various], 1983-2002 1216Gn-Go [various], 1982-2002 1217Gr-Gu [various], 1982-2003 131Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center1991-2002 132Ha [various], 1983-2003 133Hajosy, Dolores - Letter and Works, 1983 134He-Hi [various], 1980-2003 135Hedgebrook, 1997-2002 136 Hernandez-Avila, Inés1989-2001 137Ho-Hy [various], 1980-2003 138 I [various], 1980-1996 139Ikas, Karin, 1996-1999 1310International Feminist Book Fair, 1988-1989 1311J [various], 1980-2001 141K-Ka [various], 1982-1997 142Kaye/Kantrowitz, Melanie, 1984-2000 143Ke-Kl [various], 1981-2001 144Kearney, Adele, 1988-1998 14Keating, AnaLouise: 145Correspondence, 1993-2004 146Emails on This Bridge We Call Home, 2000-2001 147Kendall, Kathy, 1980-1991 148Kitchen Table Press1982-1996 149Klepfisz, Irena, 1980-1995 1410Ko-Ky [various], 1986-2000 151La [various], 1980-2004 152Lara, Irene, 1998-2004 153Le [various], 1980-2000 154Lemeh, Dori Grace1992-1997 155Letters of Recommendation and Book Blurbs, 1992-1993 156Li-Lo [various]1982-2000 157The Loft, 1989-1990 158 Lu-Ly [various], 1988-2000 159Ma [various], 1982-2002 1510Maia, 1985-1998 1511Mc-Me1977-2002 1512McEwan, Christian, 1983-2003 161Mendieta, Eduardo, 1995-1998 162Merrill Lynch, 1992-2000 163Metis Press, 1981-1983 164Mi [various], 1984-1998 165Mo [various], 1981-2002 166Moraga, Cherríe, 1979-1998

¹At the request of the Anzaldúa Literary Trust a portion of this correspondence is currently closed due to privacy concerns.

 167Moran, Mary, 1987-1991 168Moreno, Melissa1993-2004 169Morones, Carmen, 1994-2003 1610Morse, Carl, 1982 1611Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA), 1995-2001 1612Mu [various], 1989-2004 1613 Na [various], 1972-1996 1614Nachman/Dykewomon, Elana, 1989-2002 171National Association of Chicano/a Studies (NACS), 1983-1993 172National Endowment for the Arts and National Research Council, 1983-1996 173National Women's Studies Association (NWSA), 1982-1990 174National Writers Union, 1986-2001 175Ne [various], 1982-2002 176Ni-Nu [various], 1981-2002 177Norcroft, 1996-2001 178 O-Ol [various], 1981-2004 179On-Ou [various], 1991-2002 1710Ortiz de Montellano, Ana L., 1992-1993 1711Pa [various], 1977-2002 1712Pe-Pl [various], 1987-2001 181La Peña, 1994-2000 182PEN American Center, 1984-1996 183Perez, Emma, 1991-1994 184Perez-Treviño, Elva, 1982-1986 185Persephone Press, 1980-1982 186Po [various], 1979-2000 187Pr-Pu [various], 1981-2002 188Press Gang Publishers, 1988-1997 189Q [various], 1989-1993 1810Quan, Kit, 1981-2004 1811Comments on GEA's Work, 1995 1812Quiñones, Tirsa and Julie Matthei1981-1992 1813Quintanales, Mirtha, 1981-2004 1814Ra-Re [various], 1981-2000 191Ramos, Juanita, 1981-1994 192Ramos-Garcia, Luis, 1971-1998 193Randall, Margaret, 1985-2000 194Reti, Irene, 1993-2002 195Reyes-Boitel, Jo Anne, 1993-1998 196Ri-Ro [various], 1984-2001 197Rich, Adrienne, 1981-1983 198Riva Rubio, Celia de la, 1994-1995 199Romero, Francisca1988-1991 1910Ross, Paula, 1983-1987 1911Rosales, Victoria,1984-1987 1912Rose, Wendy, 1980 1913Routledge, 1993-2003 1914Ru-Ry [various], 1992-1997 201Sa [various], 1977-2000 202San Diego State University, 1983-1997 203Sanchez, Elba, 1990-1999 204Sandoval, Chela, 1982-2001 205Savren, Shelley1982-1984 206Sc-Sh [various], 1983-2000 207Secret Pen Pal, 1988-1989 208Shoup, Julie, 1977-1983 209Si-Sk [various], 1982-1999 2010Signs1991-1993 2011Sinister Wisdom, 1983-1998 2012Sm-Sn [various], 1982-2000 2013Smithsonian Institution, 1988-1995 2014So [various]1984-2004 211Sp-St [various], 1982-2003 212Speak Out!, 1995-2001 213Stone, Merlin, 1979-1983 214Su-Sy [various], 1984-2000 215Submissions "To Send Out," 1979-1985 216Ta-Te [various], 1968-2001 217Teish, Luisah, 1979-1986 218Th-Ti [various],1982-2000 219Third Woman Press, 1981-2001 2110Tijerina, Aleticia, 1981-2003 2111To-Tr [various], 1989-2004 2112Torres, Eden, 1990 2113Ts-Tz [various], 1983-1994 2114University of Arizona, 1985-2000 2115Ue-University of Birmingham [various], 1985-2001 2116University of Calgary - University of Kentucky [various], 1988-2004 2117University of California, Berkeley, 1986-2000 221University of California, Davis, 1993-1996 222University of California, Los Angeles - University of California, Santa Barbara [various], 1983-1998 223University of California, Santa Cruz1984-2000 224University of Colorado1989-1993 225 University of Illinois1982-1996 226University of Maryland - University of North Dakota [various], 1987-2002 227University of Michigan, 1990-1996 228University of New Mexico, 1989-2000 229University of Oklahoma - University of Wisconsin [various],1985-2000 2210University of Texas, Austin, 1977-1996 2211Up-Ut [various], 1993-2000 2212Utne Reader, 1995-1998 2213Va [various], 1983-2001 2214Vagabond Productions, 1995 2215Varela, Viviana M., 1981-1999 2216Ve-Vo [various], 1972-2004 2217Vermont College, 1984-1985 231Wa [various], 1986-2002 232Wainwright, Sonny, 1980-1984 233We [various], 1983-2003 234Weiland, Christine, 1981-1992 235Werden, Frieda, 1977-1991 236Wh-Wi [various], 1982-2002 237The White House, 1995-2000 238Williamson, Dianna1991-1995 239Wilson Grez, Liliana, 1995-2001 2310Wo-Wr [various], 1981-2002 2311Woman of Power, 1984-1992 2312Women's Voices, 1981-1988 2313Wong, Nellie, 1979-1981 24Woodward, Carolyn, 241Correspondence, 1988-1992 242Correspondence, 1993-2003 243Correspondence, N.d. 244 Correspondence, N.d. 245Works, N.d. 246Y [various], 1984-2000 247Yale University, 1980-1984 248Yarbro-Bejarano, Yvonne, 1990-1992 249Young, Leslie Ann, 1979-1984 2410Z [various], 1987-2004 2411 Zahava, Irene, 1988-1994 2412Zanotti, Barbara, 1985-1987 2413Zimmerman, Bonnie, 1991-1995 2414Zschokke, Magdalena, 1988-1993 25Alphabetical Correspondence, First Name Only: 25 1A [various], 1978-2000 252B-D [various], 1979-2003 253E-I [various], 1979-2001 254J [various], 1978-1993 255 K-L [various], 1976-1998 256M-R [various], 1977-2000 257S-T [various], 1982-1996 258V-Z [various], 1983-1998 259Unidentified, 1982-1998 2510Miscellaneous, 1986-2000 26Correspondence by Subject: 26El Mundo Surdo Series: 261A-L [various], 1979-1980 262M-Z [various], 1979-1980 263Mailing Lists, n.d. 26Third World Women Speakers List: 264A-Z [various], 1979-1982 265Mailing Lists, n.d. 26Writing Programs:

Other correspondence related to Anzaldúa's teaching and lecturing can be found in Series 5: Gigs and Teaching.

 266A-C [various], 1984-1993 267 Alan [no last name], 1985-1986 268 Bessie [no last name], 1984-1985 269 Bonnie [no last name], 1984 2610 Cabaniss, James, 1985-1986 2611 Cassie [no last name], 1984 2612 F-L [various], 1981-1985 2613 Fahy, Gail, 1984-1985 2614 Holland, Colleen, 1984-1985 2615 June [no last name], 1984-1985 2616 Landry, Pat, 1984 2617 Laura [no last name], 1984-1985 271Lydia [no last name], 1984 272 M-S [various], 1980-1985 273 Marlow, Lynn, 1985-1986 274 Morpheu, Lisa, 1985 275 Pittman, Valerie, 1984-1985 276 Rounds, Sandra, 1985 277 Sue [no last name], 1984-1985 278 Shea, Susan, 1985-1986 279 Exercises, n.d. 2710 Instructor Evaluations, n.d. 2711 Student Information Sheets, n.d. 27Signs: Journal of Women inCulture and Society:

Anzaldúa was a special guest editor for an edition of Signs. Includes manuscript submissions and related correspondence.

 2712Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 18 (4), Summer 1993 2713-14Correspondence and Submissions, 1991-1992 [5 folders] 281-3Correspondence and Submissions, 1991-1992 [cont'd] 28Writing and Reprint Correspondence:

Includes requests and agreements for reprinting or reissuing Anzaldúa's works.

 2841981-1983 2851988 2861989 2871990 2881991 2891992 2911993 2921994 2931995 2941996 2951997 301-21998 [2 folders] 303-41999 [2 folders] 305-62000 [2 folders] 307-92001 [3 folders] 311-32002 [3 folders] 3142003 3152004, N.d. 316Aunt Lute Books permissions correspondence, 2001-2004 Written Works, 1965-2004

Anzaldúa's larger published works--Borderlands/La Frontera, Interviews/Entrevistas, Making Face, Making Soul, This Bridge Called My Back, and this bridge we call home--are listed first. Other works, both published and unpublished, are then listed alphabetically in Nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry, and Editorial categories. Anzaldúa's dissertation and other graduate student work is next, followed by Writing Notes, Speeches, Interviews, and Works (by others) about Anzaldúa. Many works frequently changed titles, so there may be some redundancy in the collection. For this reason Anzaldúa's original folder titles and contents were maintained when possible.

 32Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (published 1987) 321Correspondence, 1983-1985 322Notes, early materials 323Manuscript, discards 324Pre-draft early notes 325Pre-draft notes, "Atravesando Fronteras" 326Pre-draft notes, "Los Ilegales" 327Pre-draft notes, "The One Who Has Dominion Over Serpents" 328Pre-draft notes, miscellaneous 329Manuscript, 1985 version, copy 1 3210Manuscript, 1985 version, copy 3 32Manuscript (Prose): 3211Early drafts 3212Draft 3213Draft copy, 19 October 1986 331Draft copy 332Draft copy 333Draft pieces 334Early version, "Dominion Over Serpents" 335"How to Tame a Wild Tongue" 336Notes 337Outside critique 338Table of Contents 33Manuscript (Poetry): 339"Antigua, Mi Diosa"/"Ancient, My Goddess" 3310"Arriba Mi Gente" 3311"Ballad of an Insomniac" 3312"Buses don't run on Sundays" 3313"The Basque Witches" 3314"Cagado abismo, quiero saber" ("Cowardly Abyss, I want to know" 3315"Canción de la Diosa de la Noche" 3316"The Cannibal's Canción" 3317"Cihuatlyotl, 'woman alone'" 3318"Cervicide" 3319"Compañera, Cuando Amábamos" 3320"Conjuro Para Provocar Amor" 3321"Corner of 50th St. and Fifth Ave." 3322"Creature of Darkness" 3323"Cultures" 3324"la cuna" 3325"la curandera" 3326"Cuyamaca" 3327"the dark shining thing" 3328"Despierto en un monte oscuro" 341"Don't give it a name, you say" 342"Ella tiene su tono" 343"En Mi Corazón Se Incuba" 344"En el Nombre de Todas las Madres Que Han Perdido Sus Hijos en la Guerra" ("In the Name of All the Mothers Who Have Lost Children in the War") 345"Finis" 346"Gente de Sombra" 347"Herida abierta" 348"Holy Relics" 349"horse" 3410"I Had to Go Down" 3411"Interface" 3412"Letting Go" 3413"Immaculate, Inviolate: Como Ella" 3414"Matriz sin tumba O" 3415"Un Mar de Repollos" ("A Sea of Cabbages") 3416"Meta-mexicana" 3417"mujer cacto" 3418"Musa bruja" 3419"My Black Angelos" 3420"Nightvoice" 3421"No se raje, Chicanita" 3422"Nopalitos" 3423"Poets Have Strange Eating Habits" 3424"Protean Being" 3425"Senses Drowning" 3426"Sobre piedras con lagartijos" 3427"el sonovabitche" 3428"sus plumas al viento" 3429"To live in the Borderlands means you" 3430"We Call Them Greasers" 3431"White Wing Season" 3432"yo no fuí, fue Teté" 351A-I [various] 352Manuscript, table of contents and preface 353Manuscript drafts, chapter 1 354Manuscript drafts, chapter 2 355Manuscript drafts, chapter 3 356Manuscript drafts, chapter 4 357Manuscript drafts, chapter 5 361Manuscript drafts, chapter 6 362-3Manuscript drafts, chapter 7 [2 folders] 364Manuscript, end notes 365Manuscript, miscellaneous 366Production, front and end matter 367Production, page design samples 368Production, manuscript, chapters 1-4 369Production, manuscript, chapters 1-4 3610Production, manuscript, chapters 1-5 3611Production, manuscript, chapters 5-7 3612Production, manuscript, chapters 6-7 371Production manuscript, poetry 372Production manuscript, poetry 373Production manuscript, poetry i-iii 374Production manuscript, poetry iv-vi 375Production, manuscript, end notes 376Production, copyeditor's manuscript 377Production manuscript, Gloria's copy 378Production galleys, chapters 1-7 379Production galleys, sections i-vi 381Production page proofs, front matter, chapters 1-7 382Production page proofs, sections i-vi 383Production typesetting 384Cover art sketches 385Publicity materials 386Publicity, book reviews 387Reviews 388-9Gig flyers [2 folders] 3810Second edition, corrections and new introduction 3811"On the Process of Writing Borderlands" 39Interviews/Entrevistas, edited by AnaLouise Keating (published 2000) 391Contract, 1998 392Correspondence, 1998 393Correspondence, 1999 394Jamie Lee Evans 395Inés Hernández Ávila 396AnaLouise Keating 397Linda Smuckler 398Table of Contents and Chapter 1 drafts 399Chapters 2 and 3 drafts 3910Chapters 4 and 5 drafts 3911Chapter 6 draft 3912Chapter 7 draft 3913Chapter 8 draft 3914Chapter 9 draft 3915Chapter 10 draft 3916Chapter 11 draft 3917Chapter 12 draft 3918"Last Words," draft 3919Production design sample 3920Notes, misc. 3921Publicity 3922Revisions 3923Gloria Anzaldúa's personal copy of the published book, 2000 40Making Face, Making Soul, Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Women of Color (published 1990) 401Prospectus draft 402Contributor lists, 1989-1990 403Correspondence, Anzaldúa, 1988-1989 404Correspondence, contributors [various], 1988-1990 405Correspondence, soliciting letter/permissions letter 406Correspondence, 1989-1990 407Project outline, 21 March 1990 408Reader reports on submissions 409Signed permission releases 4010Permissions 4011Contributor manuscripts 4012Submission discards, A-L [various] 411Submission discards, M-Z [various] 412-3Manuscript, earlier version, 1989 [2 folders] 414Dedication/acknowledgement, manuscript drafts 415Introduction, handwritten manuscript 416-7Introduction, manuscript drafts 1989-1990 [3 folders] 421Introduction, manuscript drafts (cont'd), 1989-1990 422-4Introduction, manuscript drafts, N.d. [3 folders] 425Introduction, typeset manuscript 426"En Rapport, In Opposition," notes 427"En Rapport, In Opposition," Sinister Wisdom 33 article 428"En Rapport, In Opposition," 19 January 1990 429"En Rapport, In Opposition," manuscript drafts 4210Table of Contents 431Artwork 432Essays/articles, miscellaneous 433Notes 434Production materials 435Typeset pages, selected essays and front matter 436Miscellaneous 437Publicity 438Book reviews, 1989-1991 43This Bridge Called My Back: Writings of Radical Women of Color, edited by Anzaldúa and Cherrie Moraga (published 1981) 439Correspondence, call for submissions 4310 Correspondence, C. Moraga 4311Correspondence, contributors A-C [various] 4312Correspondence, contributors D-Y [various] 4313 Correspondence [various] A-L 4314Correspondence [various] M-W 4315Correspondence, speakers list 4316Correspondence, permissions 441Contact lists 442Administrative, contributor information 443Author contracts 444Contracts, contributors 445Contract for Spanish version, 1986 446Correspondence, Persephone Press 447Correspondence, Persephone, book orders 448Correspondence, Persephone, royalty statements 449Persephone Press prospectus 4410Correspondence, Kitchen Table Press 4411Correspondence, Kitchen Table Press, book orders 4412Correspondence, Kitchen Table Press, royalty statements 4413"La Güera," C. Moraga manuscript drafts 4414"La Prieta," manuscript drafts 4415"La Prieta," manuscript draft, N.d. 4416"La Prieta," manuscript discards 4417"La Prieta," Spanish translation 4418"La Prieta," notes 4419"Speaking in Tongues," early manuscript draft 4420"Speaking in Tongues," early manuscript draft 4421"Speaking in Tongues," early manuscript draft, edited by C. Moraga 451"Speaking in Tongues," manuscript drafts 452"Speaking in Tongues," manuscript drafts 453"Speaking in Tongues," Spanish translation 454Second edition and other editions, Foreword, 1983 455Third edition, "Counsels from the Firing" (foreword), MS drafts 456Third edition, "Counsels from the Firing," (foreword), 12 October 2001 457Third edition, "Counsels from the Firing," (foreword), 30 October 2001 458Third edition, "Counsels from the Firing," (foreword), 1 November 2001 459Third edition, "Counsels from the Firing," (foreword), 4 November 2001 4510Third edition, "Counsels from the Firing," (foreword), 7 November 2001 4511Production, manuscript corrections 4512Production, permissions to reprint 45