All the Losers Go There: Challenging the Deficit Educational Discourse of Chicano Racialized Masculinity in a Continuation High School (Report‪)‬

I ask these unsettling questions: what does it mean for me to write as a Chicano in the final years of the millennium, 506 years after the full-scale invasion of the Americas--the usurpation of lands, the wholesale rape and slaughter of indigenous peoples, the forced importation and brutal enslavement of African peoples; and the institutionalized criminalization and marginalization o fthe Chicana/o community, etc.? --Aldama. Millenial Anxieties: Borders, Violence, and the Struggle for Chicana/o Subjectivity (1998)