ABSTRACT
DBI’ve noticed that many Chicana writers use Amerindian goddess images and symbols in their works. Conocimientos is a type of looking at the ways they construct reality, the ways they construct knowledge, and in particular how those ways of constructing knowledge and reality violate other people’s knowledges and sense of reality. The chapter looks look at who constructs knowledges, realities, and information and how they control people’s identities through that construction. For some people, crossing from one world to another—from one culture to another, from one physical location to another—is very natural. For decades people have said that Mexicans are dumb and after a while it becomes part of the cultural perspective itself.
