other forms: history, culture, intersectionality, and political coalitions. Chicana history is different from that of other American immigrant groups because they have a claim of origination to the Southwest. Chicano culture determines the specific ways in which gender and sexuality are defined in Mexican-American communities. Intersectionality is the concept that Chicanas belong to more than one oppressed group – race, gender, and class. And finally, this intersectionality means that Chicanas can join with but also be rejected by many different political coalitions. The Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Society claims that, "One of the best-known Latina feminists is Gloria Anzaldúa, author of numerous writings, including Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza. As a lesbian Chicana writer, Anzaldúa has produced work that shows the clear intersectionality of gender, sexuality, and the social construction of racial identity." Oppressive Chicana archetypes redefined The trio of figures that writer and theorist Gloria Anzaldúa has referred to as "Our Mothers": the Virgen de Guadalupe, La Malinche and La Llorona. These symbolic figures are of great importance to identity politics and popular culture in Mexico and the southwest United States, and have been used, argues theorist Norma Alarcón, as reference points "for controlling, interpreting, or visualizing women" in Mexican-American culture. Our Lady of Guadalupe La Virgen de Guadalupe, the patron saint of the Americas, was recognized by the Catholic Church soon after she was discovered by an indigenous man, Juan Diego. According to the Encyclopedia of Global Religion, "During and after the conquest, Catholicism was used to justify the physical, emotional, and spiritual enslavement of the indigenous people…[who]were dehumanized and lived without hope. Popular tradition tells us that in the midst of this devastation, [Our Lady of Guadalupe] was viewed as a miracle that helped restore a dying people's dignity and desire to live." She is generally viewed as the main symbol of all Catholic Mexicans. Our Lady of Guadalupe's Role in Chicana Literature; The Virgin de Guadalupe was created from the religion Christianity and the Aztec culture which was national saint. In some Chicanas' works, including the well-known essay of Cherríe Moraga, Loving in the War Years, La Virgen de Guadalupe symbolizes the male repression of women's sexuality and independence. Gloria Anzaldúa has been at the forefront of efforts to revise Guadalupe, moving away from the chaste, "perfect" mother sanctified by the Roman Catholic Church toward a feminist, brown mother goddess. La Malinche The myth of