Borderlands

Spanish conquistadors, Creole Patriots, Europe, Africa, and Asia. Jeffery Taylor then goes on to display the birth and importance of Maize in both Mexican Cuisine and world history. Taylor then goes on to talk about the importance of these northern borderlands of Mesoamerica. Taylor elaborates on the pre-Columbus times of this region. In these lands it was primarily nomadic, hunter-gather peoples, then there was a shift. An agricultural revolution emerged and spread out to the…

Massacre. In the late 1930s was a genocidal massacre against the Haitian population living in the borderlands of the Dominican Republic with Haiti at the direct order of Dominican President Rafael Trujillo. How the person pronounced the Spanish word for parsley (perejil) determined their fate. Trujillo used the massacre as the starting point of his policy to secure, develop, and transform the Dominican borderlands into a national showcase. They created a national identity that defined Dominicans…

Living In The ‘Borderlands’Between Cultures Lee Chew’s “The Biography of a Chinaman,” as well as Toshio Mori’s “Tomorrow is Coming, Children,” both tell tales of what it was like to live in the borderlands between cultures. Certainly their stories are different. Chew recounts the experience of leaving China to pursue wealth in America, while Mori tells a story of being a Japanese immigrant travelling to the west. Both arrived in the United States at different times, for different reasons.…

feelings in her short story “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”. Growing up in the Rio Grande most of her work was influenced by the borderlands which refers to the border between Mexico and United States. “Borderlands,” she writes, “are physically present wherever two or more cultures edge each other, where people of different races occupy the same territory” (Anzaldua 205). The borderlands created a new category of person “Mestiza” (Anzaldua 205) it exists between cultures having a mix of more than…

her defiance is not addressed in this text because of the underlying proto-nationalist themes present in Marie’s imagining of Arthur and England as inherently deserving of ruling over Scotland. Lanval encounters both the Mysterious Woman of the borderland between Carlisle and Scotland, as well as Arthur’s wife Queen Guenevere, and throughout Lanval’s interactions with the two women, both women are assertive in their power and apparent agency in terms of their sexuality. This idea of female power…

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What is utopia? If you were to ask William Penn, his reply would consist of three words, “Green Country Towne”. In other words, a place of sparsely constructed homes along the countryside whose verdure surroundings render it invulnerable to fires (Vitiello, 9/23/2014). This idea of utopia is inherently subjective. It overlooks the classism that inhibits those who are not wealthy or part of the elite, and thus do not have the opportunity to live in such a place. Nonetheless, the attempt to…

responsibility as a family and a community. These cultural barriers and expectations based on who you identify as culturally, and who you are brought up as ethnically are also evident in Cynthia Bejarano’s ¿Que Onda? as she analyzes Chicana/o and Mexciana/o borderland youth and their interactions with American culture at Altamira High School. Bejarano’s…

the War of 1812, the Old Northwest was a sort of borderland, a meeting-ground of Americans and different individuals of English, French, and American plunge where geological and social limits stayed shaky. The annihilation of the British and their partner Tecumseh, who had attempted to compose skillet Indian imperviousness to American administer, deleted any uncertainty over who might from now on control the locale. In any case, another borderland immediately…

“[What happens in the film] can happen in every single suburb of Europe, it is a reality of immigration, which is the slavery of the 21st century, that is happening all over the world” (McCracken 2011). These are the words of, Alejandro González Iñárritu, the director of Biutiful, when asked about the shooting of the film. The severity of the words can come at the reader as shocking but in reality they accurately represent the current reality of the globalized world. The ongoing globalization is…