Borderlands

Struggles with Identity Finding your identity can be hard for some people. Your identity obviously makes you who you are. Gloria Anzaldua’s ‘To Live in the Borderlands’ (1987) and Justin Simien’s ‘Dear White People’ (2014) had a couple things in common when related to identity. In the poem, she talks about being between the borderlands and trying to find who you are based on where you are from and where you are now. I see a similar concept of not being able to decide who you really are in several

According to the text The Borderlands refers to the area of common culture along the boarder between the United States of America and Mexico. The story mostly talks about the emergence of maquiladoras on the Mexican side. Maquiladoras are foreign owned factories established just across the boarder in Mexico. The first core concept that comes to mind when reading the borderlands is 1. Institutional discrimination. Institutional discrimination is the denial of opportunities and equal rights to

of U.S- Mexican border, and boarders in general, is the main focus of author Gloria Anzalúda in her publication “Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza.” In some ways, this book is an autobiography that is written in a stream of consciousness with intertextual poems, songs, and stories. By using such techniques, Anzalúda is able to stress different aspects of living in a ‘borderland’ and also how the role expected of women is extensive and interconnected with the Catholic Church and Mexican cultural

frequently cited de nitions of “borderlands” in this new histori- cal school of thought comes from Gloria Anzaldúa’s 1987 book, Border- lands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, in which she describes these zones as something more than xed areas on maps: they are places where “people of different races occupy the same territory, where under, lower, middle and upper classes touch, where the space between two individuals shrinks with intimacy” (preface, unnumbered page). Borderlands, in this view, are home to

is bringing in more and more retail jobs each year, along with call centers and other service sectors. El Paso has talent and that talent is leaving due to the lack of economic growth. They follow bigger industries in other cities and leave the borderland behind. College graduates in El Paso are unemployed for a long period of time, and decide to look for better opportunities in other successful cities. A few questions we need to ask ourselves are: How can bigger industries help improve the local

Women’s history is a history of oppression. Throughout time, women have faced systematic domination, which has ultimately informed women’s identities and shaped their roles in society. However, the oppression of women is not uniform and different groups of women have experienced sexist oppression to different degrees and in vastly different ways. This is largely due to intersectionality, which is the idea that the convergence and interaction of various oppressed aspects of one’s identity uniquely

case of San antonio, these border communities were strong together. However, important community members like John reyner fought for representation outside of these communities but he failed in doing so. However, John reyner was necessary for this borderland community even if he didn’t affect the rest of the country. These deepening rifts helped maintain the resilience of minorities in border communities such as San

barbed wire. Although some residents idealized the “Golden West” given access to Western television, the impenetrability of the border reduced “cultural confrontation and articulation” — the language used by Berdahl to highlight the significance of borderlands — to nothing beyond border stories comparable to myths and legends in other

for readers to help “Liberate not only women, but anyone oppressed.” Despite the differences of our experiences, Latinx feminist theory believes that our differences should serve as an incentive to establish solidarity towards justice, not another borderland to cross. Similar to the reproductive justice theory’s utilization of the Ubuntu philosophy, - the “belief in the universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity”(201 RJT) - Latinx feminist theory embraces unity as a direct path to the realization

dual identity--we don’t identify with the Anglo-American cultural values and we don’t totally identify with the Mexican cultural values. We are a synergy of two cultures with various degree of Mexicanness or Angloness. So I have internalized the borderland conflict that sometimes I feel like one cancels out the other and we are zero, nothing, no one (1590). The uncertainty of her milieu in terms of language, descendant, and culture, has enriched Anzaldúa who is finally able to make peace with them