Encapsulated

Xicanismo suffers from cultural encapsulation. Most Xicano figures are so immersed in a minority role that they can’t lift their heads to see that they are being studied by not just ourselves but by a host of international guest who take a great deal of time and painstaking research to try to understand us. Yet our focus still remains in our ens as if we aren’t done yet in trying to discover who we are. We can’t even acknowledge those voices who give us a piece of themselves to us.