Borderlands

Grisel Alvarado Ms. Ahonen English 1302 13 Abril 2016 Pancho Villa Pancho Villa grew up in a very poor family and experienced the difficulties of life at a very young age. After losing his dad, Villa became the head of the household at only 15 years of age. Even though Villa was a fugitive and outlaw, he was still seen as a historical person due to the war tactics that he used during the time period. Villa was a national hero and a prominent figure to many Mexicans, he had become a runner of…

Israelis government and the Palestinians government. According to an article “Arab Jewish Musicians and the Politics of Performance” by Galit Saada-Ophir, discusses about the Arab Jewish music borderland which occurred after the declaration of 1948 and conflicts emerged not merely between the borderland and the dominant Israeli musical genre, but through internal struggles between different Arab Jewish styles competing for cultural visibility. Although Israel stood up for democracy yet for Arab…

At the time of Tom Boellstorff’s (2007) article ‘Queer Studies in the House of Anthropology,’ little anthropological research had been undertaken in the realm of non-normative sexualities and genders in non-western contexts. Along with this, there was a lack of scholarship on female non-normative sexualities in both western and non-western contexts. Boellstorff (2007:21) argued that this gap in anthropological research was due to a range of factors; particularly the continued barriers women face…

Israelis government and the Palestinians government. According to an article “Arab-Jewish Musicians and the Politics of Performance” by Galit Saada-Ophir, discusses the Arab-Jewish music borderland which occurred after Israel’s independence of 1948 (Saada-Ophir, 2006). The conflicts emerged not simply between the borderland and the prevailing Israeli musical genre, but in the course of internal resistance between different Arab-Jewish styles competing for cultural visibility (Regev, 1996).…

and Pachuco or caló (Anzaldúa 56). Anzaldúa, in fact, uses all of aforementioned languages in Borderlands/La Frontera in an effort to emphasize the diversity of the Latino/Chicano culture. Anzaldúa explains to us that ethnic identity and culture can be found in its use of…

become synonymous with Canada's geopolitical predicament. Borders partake in the construction of the imaginary of the nation. The border is in fact also the symbol of the exclusionary practice inherent in the discourse of the nation. Border and borderlands, nonetheless, are not static, inert entities but organic ones; they change over time and space and become different and often unfamiliar kinds of places. In the present discussion of the novel Obasan by the Japanese Canadian author Joy…

Book Review Beyond Machismo: Intersectional Latino Masculinities. By Aida Hurtado and Mrinal Sinha. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2016, 272 pp., $29.95 (paper) Aida Hurtado and Mrinal Sinha’s Beyond Machismo: Intersectional Latino Masculinities finds itself entering in the midst of some very busy noisy conversations regarding Masculinities. As the recently-concluded 2016 Presidential Election has revealed, what it means to be Men in the United States (if not the West/Global North)…

H.W. Bush, Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari, and Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney signed the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA. What many are not familiar with is how Texas border cities with Mexico, particularly the borderland of El Paso, TX, and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, saw a significant increase in gender violence after the signing of NAFTA. Since the early 1990’s to the early 2000’s, Ciudad Juárez became the central stage for the most gruesome femicides in the…

Both Craig Womack’s novel “Drowning in Fire” and Gloria Anzaldúa’s semi-autobiographical work “Borderlands” explore the intersection between queer and Indian identities. One specific way that Womack and Anzaldúa focus on these identities is through the tension between native religions and Christianity in the lives of modern natives. Both authors come up with a compelling narrative of what it is like to be native and queer in the face of an institutionalized product of Western conquest like…

not analyze this relationship. Falcón’s piece also wants the use of Du Bois’s theory to occur more; therefore she applies it in a new group of individuals within a previously unrecognized geographical environment: Afro-Peruvian women living near a borderland. This is where her support of the theory shifts slightly. Although she does support Du Bois’s theory of Double Consciousness, she believes it needs to be more gender fluid in order to fully fit the situation she puts forth. She acknowledges…