How do the surrounding sociopolitical and cultural struggles of racial and ethnic discrimination impact family structure in both Baldwin and Anzaldua’s nonfiction texts, and to what effect?

  1. Social issues, family issues:how do the surrounding sociopolitical and cultural struggles of racial and ethnic discrimination impact family structure in both Baldwin and Anzaldua’s nonfiction texts, and to what effect? What does this suggest about the relationship between sociopolitical landscape and family life?
  2. Individual identity:how do both Baldwin and Anzaldua’s nonfiction texts depict the struggle that individuals experience with their sense of personal identity as a result of experiences with racial and ethnic discrimination? What does this suggest about the relationship between surrounding sociopolitical environment and the self?