Borderlands

realities of the borderland and determines the interaction between the border people. As different interactions happened in the borderlands compare to the other regions in both countries, certain levels of interactions inevitably make distinctions as Martínez (6-9) briefly categorizes the borderlands into four groups, namely: 1. Alienated borderlands In this type of borderland, interaction does not exist or it is prohibited because of “severe tensions between the adjacent states and/or border populations” (Cassarino 4). “Border is functionally closed, and cross-border interaction is totally or almost totally absent.…

In both "To live in the Borderlands means you. . .", by Gloria Anzaldua, and "Crying poem" by Jimmy Santiago Baca the authors use various unique stylistic techniques and figures of speech to not just tell the reader of their past, but to paint a picture of the circumstances they faced when growing and how they have affected them. In "Crying Poem", Baca uses the structure of his poem and various stylistic techniques to reflect the frustration and internal conflict he has faced having to "grow…

homophobia as a Mexican immigrant living in the South Western United States is one of my proudest accomplishments. My arrival to the Unites States as a thirteen year old represented an unprecedented challenged; from learning a new language, to trying to coexist in an environment that proved both very welcoming and hostile towards my particular subjective embodiment, my experiences have been informed by a number of contradictions. While I encountered a number of great people who offered their…

I appreciate the vividness of this Melissa’ s commentary. Specifically, how she grasps the core motives and meanings of the book in very few words. Coherently, this reflects the duality and dubiousness of Hispanics intellectuals. Also, it details the danger of crossing the line of official creed. On one hand, she can be a woman, if she decides to be tamed. On the other hand, she can be a “puta”, if she decides to disobey. Moreover, in this very compact commentary, Melissa taps into a few major…

purpose of this article is to examine with the lenses offered by social theory how borderlands culture is constructed and reconstructed in a time of global transition and security primacy between the United States and Canada. Costing is defined as an outlay or expenditure of money, time, labor, trouble. Capital Investments is defined as a firm's acquisition of capital assets or fixed assets such as manufacturing plants and machinery that is expected to be productive over many years. Integration…

4.0 Analytic Borderlands While cities, through some mix of magic, enchantment exert a magnetic attraction, the fascination is difficult to pin-down on any laboratory table, hence sorcery. Pushpa Arabindoo, from UCL Geography Department, summaries the enmeshed complications that arise for scholars who aspire to “a deeper ideological reflection borrowed from other disciplines”, noting plainly the challenge as “socializing urban design is not as easy as it seems” ! The urban economist, Saskia…

In a radical kind she calls autohistoria, which offers an inventive approach to compose history, Gloria Anzaldua presents a nonlinear history of both the geological and mental scenes of Borderlands. Anzaldua's autohistoria is a class of blended media—individual story, testimonio, true records, cuento, and verse—that disproves stasis pretty much as the Borderlands from which Anzaldua comes. As indicated by Anzaldua, the Fringe is a "third nation" whose history as been told on Anglocentric terms,…

National identities are very much manifested in the social relationships, cultural expressions, and socio-economic experiences of a borderland community. In the U.S. there is so much unique diversity and I am going to prove this using the CSU Long Beach campus. My group and I from my history class took a fieldtrip around campus to analyze the different cultures and people that interacted on campus as well as one event that we attended. Throughout class we also read many stories on cultural…

In the 1980s, the recognized American/Mexican (chicana) theorist and writer, Gloria Anzaldua, published her semi-autobiographical book Borderlands/La Frontera. By narrating her life as a chicana, an American of Mexican descent, Anzaldua explains the existence of cultural barriers and how she managed to find her own true cultural identity while living on the border. As a tribute to her work, Emma Perez, an associate professor at the University of Colorado, wrote “Gloria Anzaldúa: La Gran Nueva…

All who live in and around the borderlands knows and understands that there is so much more to the border than the basic definition given by Webster’s Dictionary which states that a border simply exists as “the outer part or edge of anything; the exterior limit of a place.” Whenever the “white” man has unfairly imposed on new land in which the Native Americans or the Mexicans already owned and claimed, tensions flared and more often than not conflict arose. The United States and Mexico border is…