This article will share a postcolonial analysis of three widely taught texts that the author has used to introduce both secondary English language arts classes and college students in multicultural young adult literature courses to postcolonial criticism: Sherman Alexie's "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian," Gene Luen Yang's "American Born Chinese," and Matt de la Peña's "Mexican White-Boy." The author uses these texts because they feature protagonists who are members of a marginalized group, because the conflicts in the texts are representative of those underrepresented groups, and because the authors are members of the same cultural group as the protagonists; furthermore, the texts all contain fundamental concepts of postcolonial criticism: the Other and Othering, fetishizing the Other, going native, and the comprador class. These aspects of postcolonial criticism do not cover the entirety of this wide-ranging paradigm; however, these concepts allow students to begin interrogations into the normalized oppression that they witness and/or experience daily.