Intersecting Worlds in Mexican American Philosophy: Teaching and Learning From the Border

One of the few Mexican American women philosophers across the United States and Mexico redefines philosophy and pedagogy through a groundbreaking exploration of identity, culture, and language. For more than two decades Manuela Alejandra Gomez has been teaching on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.In the first book of its kind to critically analyze how Mexican Americans connect to philosophy she draws on a five-year study, her experience, ethnographic observations and testimonies to show a constant navigation between two nations, two cultures, and two languages. Leading us through this complex negotiation of intersecting worlds, Gomez explores how to teach and learn philosophy from a Mexican American perspective.She makes us question what it means to be a philosopher, challenges conventions about what it truly means to philosophize and redefines the boundaries of philosophical thought: her aim is to add a new chapter in the narrative of academic inclusion and diversity that makes mo