Borderlands

Mario Nelson Professor Flores-Marcial Chican@ Studies 345 December 12, 2016 The Chican@ Paradox Explaining what a Mexican is, is very difficult and somewhat impossible. It seems as if Mexico and Mexicans are still looking for their identity. Bonfil Bantalla gives the example of two Mexico’s. One of the Mexico’s is the real Mexico and the other is imaginary Mexico. The only reason why it is hard to define what a Mexican is, is because of the caste system and the separation and implication of…

Environmental Effects of the Border Wall on Animal Migration and Vegetation Introduction: The border wall has long been a controversial issue since its original proposition in the early 2000s. Aside from the obvious differences in opinions, there is a clear problem with the building of a border wall between Mexico and America, the impact on the environment due to the border wall itself and the surrounding a travelling populations of humans associated with it. As much as individuals would like to…

Dealing with the Kremlin 1. Importance The Russian Federation is playing a game of risk, showing an aggressive hand just enough to provoke condemnation, but slight enough to avoid another international arms race- as of yet. Succeeding the Soviet Union as a permanent member of the U.N Security Council, the latter half of our 21st century has seen the Kremlin all but reject the principles of allegiance and armistice the United Nations was fashioned to uphold. Deep-seated into the fifteenth year…

Chapter 5 is broken up into three lessons. Lesson Number One: The Importance of Being Jewish. This lesion had to do with Joe Flom. He was known as the scholar who attended Harvard Law and was discriminated against for being Jewish when we applied for jobs. The limit in opportunity caused him to join the small new firm Skadden, Aprs, they worked with anything “came in the door to a generation of Jewish lawyers from the Bronx and Brooklyn in the 1950s and 1960s, then, was the work the white-shoe…

Identity is a powerful concept that shapes humanity’s perspective of the past and constantly re-forms the present moment. Each person experiences a unique amalgamation of memories that becomes a part of the individual’s psyche and identity. From the emergence of Homo sapiens nearly 200,000 years ago, ancestry has remained a vital element to understanding the collective experiences of humanity. When asked the question, “Who are you?”, the answer lies buried in the past of descendants. The actions…

Si eres pobre te humilla la gente/si eres rico te tratan muy bien/un amigo se metió a la mafia/porque pobre ya no quiso ser/ahora tiene dinero de sobra/por costales le pagan al mes (Los Tucanes de Tijuana, 2002). “El Centenario” performed by the famous Mexican regional band, Los Tucanes de Tijuana, narrates the story of a humble worker whose social position produced multiple encounters of humiliation (2002). Nevertheless, his faith changed when he joined the mafia, as he acquired fortune,…

Gender roles and masculinity are social themes that are frequently discussed in our society and apply uniquely to Latin@ culture. ‘Macho’ is simply the Spanish translation of ‘male,’ but it has taken on connotations that relate to having masculine qualities. In the context of Latin America, ‘machismo’ is a term that relates to male sexuality; it is “a concept that dictates many aspects of Latin American male behavior,” (Kobashigawa). Such qualities are performative in that men and women are…

proletarians. When these educated people came to Xinjiang, a literature genre call Western Literature was born. Their writing inevitably reflects the acute geographical condition of the region and how they struggle to fight against the stagnancy of the borderland. Whether it was the disgraced official or someone who were sent on a tour of duty, they share the invariant feeling to being marginalized and deviating from the power center. And these sentiments were reflected in their artistic…

In her assessment of Gilbert Hernandez’ seminal work, Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories, Jennifer Glaser makes a number of claims about the ultimate meaning behind the work and how it relates to the larger work of transnational authors. Glaser asserts that Palomar is an important piece of transnational exploration; Through the lens of the somewhat mystical town of Palomar,Hernandez explores race, gender, class and the still unfolding effects of cultural imperialism. Glaser also argues that…

autonomy for peasant villagers. This influenced how they take steps to achieve their goal. While Zapata built a gueeeila movement defensively anchored in Morelos villages, Villa organized mobile, offensive armies capable of fighting far beyond the borderlands. Zapata could thus effect land reform immediately; Villa had to insist on a delay. These movements were not differed because of the leaders limited visions, they differed because of Zapata’s and Villa’s clear grasp of the demands of their…