Pocho by José Antonio Villarreal

O.G. Pochismo

Villareal's 1959 novel Pocho has been lauded as one of the first Chican@ novels. It's a coming of age tale about a young Mexican American, Juan Manuel Rubio, who reconciles his place in the U.S. as neither relating exactly with his father's Mexico-born generation, nor Anglo society at large.

Freudian fans might try to break it down as a bildungsroman with all kinds of id, ego, superego at play, but as a borderlands theorist, I see much more generative potential in acknowledging differential consciousness at at work a la Chela Sandoval.
The above image comes from the cover of the book, but has been re-appropriated as a project of a decolonial imaginary.